Word: gauntly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Phenomenon. Voluminously voluble, gaunt, hot-eyed, nervous as a neurotic bloodhound, Malraux has an exotic fascination for Frenchmen as an intellectual who is also what they call un homme engage. As a man committed to action, Malraux-believing Communism to be the wave of the future-intrigued in the Chinese revolution and flew for the Loyalists in Spain; during World War II, he fought brilliantly in the Resistance. As a man of intellect, he distilled powerful novels from his experiences (Man's Fate, Man's Hope...
...taken the terrible risk? "People in the West live so well," said the gaunt and exhausted refugee. "I wanted to, also...
...wait on you. Whether you're old or young, or rich or poor, white or colored-come quietly up now and say. 'Billy, tonight I accept Christ.' " The Flame Around the World. Night after night in New Orleans' 16,000 capacity Pelican Stadium, this gaunt young man with the Hickey-Freeman clothes and the eagle-sharp manner is bringing men and women down from the packed stands and up the length of the baseball field to make "decisions for Christ." This would be news enough in that tamed but still sin-ridden city of blues...
Maurits Cornells Escher (rhymes with mesher) looks like an El Greco cardinal in modern mufti. A gaunt, stooped 56, he wears his white spade beard, sport jacket and grey flannels with the air of a severe fellow who knows what matches what. Odd yet precise matches are Escher's forte. An exhibition of his woodcuts and lithographs in Washington last week featured flights of birds set off against schools of fish, lizards spinning in polyhedrons through the night sky, eerie figures climbing both the top and bottom sides of stairs. His art, as clear and cold as snowflakes...
...very day that Russia's Vyacheslav Molotov flung out his fresh proposal for Big Four talks on Germany, a slender, gaunt man with aimless hair and blazing eyes rose in the United Nations General Assembly. The real solution to the German problem, he declared, lies in "direct talks ... for unification of Germany . . . A German peace is necessary for world peace, and a German peace means the unification of Germany in whatever way it is brought about." The Soviet-run government of East Germany, he said, is as free and sovereign as that of West Germany...