Word: elegante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Growling on Up. The Israeli plan of battle was elegant in its simplicity. A single mailed fist of tanks and armor-borne troops would smash straight up into all the defenses in one concentrated attack. Once the fist had punched through, at whatever terrible cost, reinforcements would pour behind it...
Occasionally, the arresting thought of retribution plagues him, as when he sees a thief led to the guillotine or watches an associate shot down before his eyes. But even the disappearance of his closest cronies, who drop out or die one by one, does not subdue his larcenous spirit. Finally...
Body into Dress. Biographer Weintraub (T. E. Lawrence, William Golding) evokes the life and times of Beardsley in splendid fashion, but presumably feels that he lacks the competence to weigh the man's art. Beardsley's exquisitely wrought line drawings embraced a vision of some unearthly world-part...
A young man in Paris gradually turns into a salamander. An elegant young girl crosses a bridge in Budapest and becomes an aged crone in the process. A motorcyclist, after skidding into a curb, finds himself lashed to an Aztec altar as a priest approaches with a knife. The nastiest...
Neither paper's music critic reviewed the creation, which band members called "a nice high school march." But the Post-Dispatch could not resist an editorial comment. The Globe-Democrat March, it said, "is reported to have three themes, one spirited, one elegant, and one blues-the blues expressing...