Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feel about his life and birth. And his poem Li Sao, the Exile's Grief, stands with the Riad, the Divine Comedy, the Paradise Lost, etc., in spite of its shortness in length. Chinese poetry, like any other poetry, is written primarily for the ear, not for the eye...
...trouble and tribulation for the 14 long months he has been in the White House. First of the Administration's Undersecretaries of the Treasury was Dean Acheson who spent most of his term in office as acting Secretary during William Woodin's illness. Because he never saw eye to eye with the President on money matters, he was retired, unthanked, last November. Second was Henry Morgenthau Jr., Undersecretary in name only, who was promptly put in command of the department when Secretary Woodin formally resigned. Third was Earle Bailie, partner in the Manhattan banking house...
...picture at a 45° angle, is reflected to a "light valve." Inside the valve is a shutter which opens and shuts 1,200 times per second. The reflected beam sends the lights & shadows of the picture through the shutter to a conventional photo-electric cell ("electric eye"). There the image is translated into electric impulses which flash over the wires-10,000 mi., if desired-to the receiving machine. The receiver reverses the process, registering the image on a sensitized film, which is then developed and printed like any ordinary picture...
Restless travelers both, both endowed with a seeing eye, Aldous Huxley and John Dos Passos view the world through spectacles differently tinted. Huxley is an intelligentsiac, Dos Passos a neoCommunist. But both are as free as any lances to be found these days, and their eyewitness reports make worthwhile reading for stay-at-homes...
...candid, though tilted perceptibly to the left. His tale of the Red Army soldier, the counter-revolutionary surgeon and the Persian merchant will not be accepted by Communists as propaganda for their cause: supporters of the Spanish Republic (which Observer Dos Passos, with a straight face but an oblique eye, calls ''The Republic of Honest Men'') will not welcome his unveiling of last year's uprising at Casas Viejas and its bloody censorship...