Word: depth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nevertheless some difficulties remain. In their chapter on the Negroes the authors assume a hard-headed reasonableness that proves illuminating in a discussion of school boycotts (the current rage) but fails to convey the spirit and depth of commitment involved in the civil rights struggle. I wish too that they had placed more emphasis on the forces behind the rise of Negro extremism and the effect of permanent poverty, on the Negro's response to the compound problem of discrimination and unemployment. Two other omissions mar the book, the failure to adequately discuss the difference between the Puerto Rican...
...baseball team practiced in Briggs cage for about three weeks before spring recess. On the basis of this skimpy observation, coach Nat Harris cautiously says that his team has pretty good depth at the plate and on the mound. His chief worry, Harris believes, will be infield defense...
...might hold forth on the great men he personally knew well--Whitehead, Sibelius, Harvey Cushing, Santayana, Rolland, Koussevitzky, Sir Richard Livingstone, Gilbert Murray, Samuel Eliot Morison; or on the things absorbed into his marrow--the sweep of Homer, the wisdom of Sophocles, the vitality of Michelangelo, the depth of Beethoven, the ironies of Stendhal, the scope of Goethe, the imagination of Berlioz, the thrust of Ibsen, the grandeur of Wagner, the vigor of Whitman...
Singing a laryngeal ragout, Franchi booms out Shenandoah, Arrivederci Roma, an aria from Tosca, a flamenco number, even Chicago in Italian. He is a tall, thin fellow who begins stiffly but soon has his tie and jacket off and his shirt unbuttoned. His big tenor has baritone depth. It lacks the bel canto sweetness of high operatic stature, but it has a lot of impressive thunder. "Most people have never been in an opera house," says Sergio's musical director...
...better at lecturing than creating. He thought that the novelist should write down what he sees, not try to dredge up the mind's messy thoughts through stream-of-consciousness. His own novels (Tarr, The Apes of God), while wildly funny in places, are all surface and little depth. So many characters resembled recognizable people that Lewis was always being threatened for libel...