Word: convey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Christy got on the floor at Dr. Collis' new clinic alongside infants and children, and painstakingly practiced the most elementary muscle-training exercises. Dr. Collis, an amateur playwright, also coached Christy in his writing. He learned a simple, straightforward style which helps him to convey a deep understanding of the problems of the cerebral palsied. Now he can talk to strangers and walk across a room. As reward for long forbearance, Christy is allowed to use his left foot for such special tasks as creative writing (his autobiography was written entirely in this...
...adaptation of the book does not provide high excitement and seems conscientiously to shun dramatic effect, it results in a picture that is severely honest and thought-provoking. The care with which director George More O'Ferrall and his cast have avoided any trace of trace of sentimentality helps convey to the screen the deeply depressing quality of Greene's novel...
Thousands of other tributes poured in, but words could not convey the feelings of a world in which the many unquestioningly accepted Einstein's genius while only the few-and they, of scientific training-adequately understood what he had contributed to knowledge. In person, Albert Einstein was diffident, almost childlike. As a man of scientific thought, he strode boldly with history's handful: Pythagoras and Archimedes, Copernicus and Newton...
...important that the swirls and splashes convey nothing at all to the viewer, except an uneasy feeling that the artist must be energetic and very angry. But Mathieu's paintings surpass the average of their kind precisely because they fail to be quite meaningless. Despite himself, Mathieu's interlocked squiggles of toothpaste white, tarry black smears, and ocher, green and crimson flashes bring to mind the night driver's world of electric lights, flashing neon and high speeds...
...Spears, a hussar who speaks French like a native, served as a liaison officer with the French in World War I. When World War II began, Churchill chose Spears as his personal representative to the French government. He became a sort of overloaded Hermes whose duty it was to convey to France the untranslatable fire and fighting passion of his master in Downing Street...