Word: eye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Montparnasse cafe table in 1922 with Sinclair Lewis, "arch-progenitor ... of the stenographic, Pullman-smoker school of writing" [TIME, May 12], I do not remember that "every [American] expatriate eye turned icily away." Quite the contrary. Those eyes welcomed him as a prosperous bestseller, and with a few ragged introductions, the self-invited guests started pushing tables together. The saucers recording the prices of the drinks rose higher & higher, and so did the comments on the shameful commercialism of writing books like Main Street and Babbitt. Mr. Lewis was extraordinarily patient, but finally called for the bill-suddenly all chairs...
Umberto II of Italy was the latest jobless monarch to eye the U.S. as a tourist. He had a lot of friends there, said he, and it was just a matter of packing...
...cold glass eye of Ansel Adams' camera, however, recorded precisely what it saw. The results helped explain why, since the perfection of photography, artists have come to scorn "naturalism" in painting, and wandered off into the bypaths of impressionism, abstraction and surrealism. When it came to making unbelievable realities believable, the camera had it all over the brush...
Kittery Point was shocked that Eliza Wall, a well-bred, teen-age schoolgirl, should run after a one-eyed French Canadian kid named Claw Moreau, whose family was on town relief. At first, in school, she had been repulsed by his rude speech, the sinister black patch over his missing eye, the squalor of the wharfside shack where his husbandless mother carelessly raised her children, the fixed lines of bitterness which came from learning early that he was a social outcast. Later Eliza's fear became curiosity; and as she grew older, sympathy...
Umberto II of Italy was the latest jobless monarch to eye the U.S. as a tourist. He had a lot of friends there, said he, and it was just a matter of packing...