Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mulcahy and his orchestra, aided by vocalist Marllyn Tate, provided music in the hall decorated with dim red lights and red and black streamers. The decorations represented the fires of "deepest purgatory" of Paradise Lose, the theme of this first of the two dances in the freshmen's biggest weekend...
Toward the end, the violence of language and action becomes somewhat wearisome. But the book is redeemed by Novelist Molaine's deep sense of fraternity with the poor wretches about whom he writes, his admiration for that dim, human feeling which keeps Old Max and Coselli together in a brotherly embrace even as they surrender to their manias, "one barking, the other whinnying, one a dog, the other a horse." And the wild, rhetorical prayer that Bébert casts up in his misery also speaks for Novelist Molaine: "Father here we are in the ooze, inert as fishes...
Recently, White drifted through the swinging doors of the dim, dark-paneled bar of Quito's Hotel Majestic. In the next few days he spent a lot of time at a bar table, occasionally speaking in a low voice to chance acquaintances. Soon shifty-eyed visitors began coming to see him. After that, White took to strolling the streets, inconspicuous in a wrinkled grey suit. From time to time, beside a convent wall or in a park, he met seedy individuals and received small packages in return for bills he peeled from a fat wad of U.S. $100s...
Robot & Time Travel. But for all the innovations, the show has the same star it had on opening night: a giant, two-headed robot studded with shining eyes. On bowed, ladder-like legs, the monster crouches beneath the planetarium's high-arched dome. When the house lights dim in the circular planetarium room, the monster's bright eyes show as points of light reflected from the curved steel ceiling. There, astonishingly real, stretches a boundless universe-a vivid replica of the starbright sky on a clear night...
...easily bridged. Materialist Holmes, with his suppleness, curiosity and gusto, was perennially young; Socialist Laski, with his dogmas and his immense learning, was prematurely old. For the rest, a passion for ideas, a faith in reason (as used by men of intellect), a dim view of organized religion, mutually known books and friends marked the common court on which they played out a tennis match of the mind. In time, they batted everything and everybody over the net, from Aristotle to Hemingway, from dentists to doorknobs, from Communism to the common cold...