Word: expressionlessness
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...views. And when he propounds or defends those views, he becomes a tiger. Last week, as Chief Justice Warren and Solicitor General Archibald Cox marked Black's 25th year with praise for his "unflagging devotion to the Constitution of the U.S.," Black sank back in his chair, expressionless and embarrassed. But later in the morning, when it came time to read his opinion on school prayers, he came alive with force and eloquence, happy once more to be in the midst of controversy...
Last week's audience seemed more than satisfied with the current state of Events. Provided with a piercing, acid jazz score by Prince, the dance begins with a scene of total desolation: three men and a girl slump with wan, expressionless faces before Shahn's backdrop of a vast, bleak, windowed city. Uncoiling themselves, the dancers make sudden taut, tentative movements, then fall back in a slack-limbed pantomime of despair. To a suddenly quickened rhythm, a Negro dancer bounds onstage, is quickly surrounded by mocking, finger-snapping whites. For a time they applaud his acrobatics, then stare...
...home to Banyuls, the same houses, same windmills, same trees and flowers." When a student later said to him, "The Acropolis must have struck you in the face," Maillol quietly replied, "On the contrary, it gave me a kiss." Like early Greek statues, Maillol's nudes wear an expressionless gaze; his statues are neither anecdotal nor are they portraits. "I look for beauty, not character," he said. "I look for architecture and volume. Sculpture is architecture, the equilibrium of masses, a composition with taste...
...year-old Democratic mayor of Springfield stopped at the "O'Connor for Senator" headquarters on Palmer St. behind the Coop for a stinging four-minute speech at 2 p.m. Before several office girls hanging out of windows and a handful of expressionless passers-by, O'Connor labeled Sen. Leverett Saltonstall '14, "an ultra-conservative who advocates maintaining the status...
...Johnson-loaded room hooted and cheered with each sharp shaft, while Kennedy sat expressionless on the dais. When Johnson concluded, Jack popped up with a light back-pat from Brother Bobby. He somewhat neutralized the attack with a few sophisticated snap sentences. "We survived," he said, laughing apprehensively. Johnson had scored some points, but Kennedy had the votes...