Word: dim
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Last week he moved his regular press conference (his 300th in seven years) into the dim, cavernous auditorium of the Smithsonian Institution so that 400 visiting editors of the American Society of Newspaper Editors could hear the new Truman in action. After the picture-taking and handshaking, A.S.N.E. President Alexander F. ("Casey") Jones of the Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald-Journal began the show with a planted question that none of the White House regulars had thought to ask before. He asked the President to comment on his "political philosophy in retiring," and Harry Truman...
Spaniards, who have seen little but heeltapping Spanish national dancing since Franco, gave their main applause to George Balanchine's new version of the classic Swan Lake. Oldsters in the audience had a dim memory, at least, of the classic style from the time when Diaghilev's Ballets Russes visited the Spain of Alfonso XIII. But they were more puzzled than pleased by such contemporary psychological pieces as Antony Tudor's Lilac Garden. Balanchine himself noted "a vast difference from the fiery enthusiasm I see at bullfights here...
...some spiritual troubles over his required reading. As a Roman Catholic, he knew that he was forbidden, under pain of sin, to read books listed in the Vatican's Index Librorum Prohibitorum-the index of forbidden books. But like most Catholics (and non-Catholics) he had only a dim notion of how the church's book censorship operated and what, exactly, it forbade...
...speeches were comfortable, middle-aged people. He sought out the younger and the not so comfortable, wherever he could find them. In Spokane, where he talked to 3,000 at a Chamber of Commerce banquet, he also answered students' questions at the Jesuits' Gonzaga University. From a dim back corner of the gymnasium, a student shouted: "Senator Taft, do you favor sending an ambassador to the Vatican?" Taft had a prompt reply. "I don't believe a formal ambassador is necessary," he said in his flat voice. "But we should have some sort of emissary there." Later...
...royal funeral since a horse became fractious at Queen Victoria's funeral. Solemn lines of Navy ratings (enlisted men) in uniform blue hauled the gun carriage that bore the King's coffin. Behind them, in the bright red and gilt state coach, rode the bereaved women, dim, veiled, scarcely visible: Britain's young Queen, her mother, her sister Margaret and her aunt, the Princess Royal. Behind them, walking four abreast, came the Royal Dukes: Edinburgh, the Queen's husband; Gloucester, the King's younger brother; Windsor, who had once been King himself; and Kent...