Word: crystallizer
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...occasion was the quarterly meeting of the All-India Congress Committee, a body roughly equivalent to the U.S. Democratic Party's National Committee, but far more powerful. Gathered in the Glass House, a graceful, open-air structure modeled after London's Crystal Palace, the Congress congeries was faced with choosing a successor to the party president. Under party rules, the president cannot succeed himself after his two-year term is up, but the current president, muscular, mustachioed Kumaraswami Kamaraj Nadar, 62, is a close political ally of Shastri. Looking ahead to the 1967 elections, Shastri wanted someone atop...
...fact, I had sent a little old lady to jail for driving too slow, he could editorialize till Christmas comes, and I'd uphold his rights. I'd back him forever, 1,000%. But the point is, slurring the court as to what it will do is crystal-balling which creates disrespect for law and order...
...Imbert's side there is no La Nación or Patria. However, he does have his own Radio Santo Domingo, which recently attacked the OAS peace team as a "bunch of washed-up diplomats whose shortsightedness does not allow them to see beyond the thick crystal of their glasses...
This is all very vague; perhaps it will be clearer if I say that Leonard Baker's Astrov is absolutely the center of attention in this production because he succeeds in making crystal clear his ties with every one of the seven other principals. He is an electric figure; one could almost hear the audience snap up when he came on stage and relax again when he went...
After reading it, and reading selectively in any of the six superior translations of La Commedia available in the U.S.,* no reasonable man can deny that Dante was indeed a titanic personality and that La Commedia is a masterpiece: a colossal but exquisite crystal in which the total experience of human being is reconstituted in radiance. At one level, La Commedia is a spiritual autobiography; at another, a parable of the progress of the soul; at a third, one of the noblest love stories ever told. Incidentally it is a manual of mysticism and an encyclopedia of Greek, Hebrew, Arabic...