Word: flushes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Much the same mixture of exhilaration and invective marked the first flush of war in the other Arab capitals. "Kill the Jews!" screamed Radio Baghdad. A Syrian commander offered the rash prediction to radio listeners that "we will destroy Israel in four days." In Damascus, schools were closed, more in celebration than precaution against air raids, and schoolchildren, singing rhythmically, filled sandbags and placed them around public buildings. Having no prepared shelters, the Syrians hastily converted two discothèques. In Beirut, supplies of laundry bluing, vegetable dye and blue paint quickly ran out as drivers rushed to darken their headlights...
Thus Harvard music suffers from serious problems of definition: Is it the work of serious musicians or dilletantes; of professional or amateurs? Is the scope of its activity intramural or entrepreneurial on a community level? Does one first decide a project, then, proceed to flush the woodwork of the Boston community to find performers capable to executing it or does one tailor one's ambitions to the resources more immediately at hand, including oneself...
Romero looks at the Argentine political game with the eyes of an old player who has been put in the penalty box for eternity. He feels the heat of the competition and the flush of frustration, but he can do no more than give a running commentary on the progress of play...
What this adds up to, I think, is that the Volunteer can really be neither amateur nor professional. He has lost that flush of innocence, or amateurism, which makes one think that by dint of honest toil and a boundless faith in human perfectability one can change any individual; on the other hand, he is working at too low a level to have acquired the technician's confidence in his mastery of tools for shaping institutions...
...different among crowds of other people trying to be different. In the Dada decade, Marcel Duchamp could shock people by exhibiting a urinal turned upside down and calling it Fountain. Seeing it for the first time today, hardly anvone would flinch-although a few might try to flush...