Word: exteriorizer
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Author Isherwood's prose still has the crisp grace of a good tennis match. He is an exterior decorator of chic and competence, whether the setting is Athens, the Alps, or the South of France. But by now he has splashed all the water out of his stagnant, neurotic pool and seems more and more like his hero-a high-and-dry orphan of the Saxophone...
...covenant, faced with colored glass to symbolize the burning bush that was not consumed. The pulpit will be in the center, a return to the custom of ancient times, which emphasized what Rabbi Cohen calls "the democratic relationship between the religious leader and the congregation." The exterior will be double-walled-blue-tinted plastic under white-wired glass. A copper cap covering the pyramid will proclaim in large Hebrew letters: "I am the Lord thy God." Rabbi Cohen hopes to break ground for the $750,000 synagogue in Philadelphia's suburban Elkins Park next fall...
...underneath the sly, somnolent exterior, there is more. Under the wartime threat of torture and death, he was cool and brave. Under the pressures of cold war, he has held courageously to the proposition that for France, survival lies in loyal alliance with the U.S. At the Berlin Conference, with a divided government and country behind him, he spoke out firmly and unequivocally. "He is a realist who will not let the dream of the best prevent him from grasping the good," said one who considers himself a friend. "The core of Bidault is rigidly moral and deeply religious...
Somewhere between a handful of stores at the far end of the common and the buildings on the knoll the town of Amherst ceases and the college, one of the top educational institutions in New England, begins. Beneath this quiet exterior lies the social and academic activity of a vigorous but somewhat conformist college community...
...Landscape "my greatest." Grant Wood, like Benton, sowed some Midwestern oats in Paris. There he sported shocking pink whiskers and a Basque beret, painted hazy, impressionistic canvases. Back home in his native Iowa, he mainly taught art for a living. He shaved his round face smooth, and assumed an exterior as mild as a cup of Ovaltine...