Word: folded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...favorite areas, particularly the 19th century, an exquisitely sure taste has been at work. One would have to go some distance before finding drawings as good as Cézanne's big study of a card player, in which the pencil strokes endow every plane of flesh and fold of cloth with the crystalline solidity of gray limestone; or Daumier's brace of lawyers, whispering together like upholstered vultures...
...parson of austere Victorian rectitude.] I remember Tony Guthrie, a year or so before he died, saying, "Do you find yourself thinking about your father more and more?" and I said, "I do." It's as if an old man in a long white beard were waiting to fold you in his arms from some beautiful billowy cloud...
...Elizabeth Reed," "I didn't think I was going to work for a candidate--I thought I'd work for the Democratic National Committee again this year. But when Jimmy came to Kirkland House last spring, we ended up putting him up for the night. He slept on our fold-down couch. I spent two days with him. And I was sold...
...Belmont, however, these issues form a small fraction of the bookshelves. The pride and joy of Society headquarters is the $40,000 mail-stuffing machine, which according to Gotch, can put as many as nine enclosures in a letter, fold, seal, and stamp a computer-typed address on it, and churn 'em out at 50 per minute...
...York's Mayor Abraham Beame and Governor Hugh Carey seem well aware of Ford's rhetorical aim. Their own arguments about New York are designed to bring it back into the fold, to identify it as strongly as possible with the rest of America, and to describe it in the smallest, least intimidating terms possible. "We need not a handout," Carey complained bitterly last month, "but the recognition by the Federal Government that we are a part of this country." Beame ended a long speech last week by conjuring up the same kind of vision. "We cannot avoid our national...