Word: frigid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...toast their sweethearts with this bland fluid? Does the Government christen its boats with a magnum of milk? Has any true American male, homeward bound, ever tarried in his favorite bar to down a beaker of milk on the rocks ? Have you ever tried to warm the frigid inner man with a cool goblet of milk-homogenized or otherwise...
...town of Chandrapore. An informal tea party introduces us to a circle of characters: the impulsive, Dr. Aziz, a young Indian who desires friendship with the English; the host, Mr. Fielding, a wise English teacher who is immediately attracted to Aziz. And two Englishwomen: Miss Adela Quested is a frigid young thing, engaged to an English magistrate in Chandrapore; and the mother of her fiance is Mrs. Moore. They accept Aziz's invitation picnic with him at the Marabar caves...
...Frigid Visage. What happens next-whether Cuba will be blackballed from the OAS, or isolated by sanctions-Frondizi did not say. Yet even this very mild and tentative stand was apparently worrisome to Castro. He sent his Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Carlos Olivares Sánchez flying through Latin America in an attempt to forestall any action at all at Punta del Este...
...more than formerly thought), affects the surrounding oceans for hundreds or thousands of miles in all directions. For such reasons, Antarctica is a land of mystery and paradox-and a priceless laboratory for the world's scientists. Last week, as the southern summer moderated Antarctica's frigid climate, some 160 U.S. scientists and 100 scientists from other nations stepped up their activity in a friendly race to unlock the secrets of the white continent...
These impressions are intensified in the performances. Actress Page, an artist of unusual richness and motility, soon melts any sense of frigidity in the heroine with her glowing warmth and charm. And Actor Harvey, a player with the frigid fascination of a lizard, is clumsily miscast as the hotblooded hero. Instantly the spectator senses that this reptilian type could never possibly pair off with the warmhearted heroine. Instantly the love affair loses its credibility and the picture its suspense. Nevertheless, the film conspicuously possesses Playwright Williams' characteristic virtue: a pathetic-romantic atmosphere that lingers from scene to scene like...