Word: gauntness
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...capital city of Seoul is 80% uninhabitable. Public buildings everywhere lie in ruins, public utility services are makeshift, and two-thirds of the schools are unusable. Only in the South's gaunt era of Reconstruction after the Civil War is there a U.S. parallel to what Rhee and his people are up against. The economy is shot to pieces. Some 75% of all mines and textile factories have suffered severe damage. Those industries which can function lack parts for maintenance and equipment for repair. The draft has absorbed much of the country's youth, but there are still...
...chimneyed rooftops, the jackstraw confusion of a Greek hillside town become strict, disciplined designs blocked in with arbitrary colors. But there is no trouble recognizing what he paints: his sharp draftsmanship shows all the cruel dryness of Greece's stony uplands, its patterned fields, searing sun, and gaunt, bare-limbed fig trees. Said London's Observer, after seeing the show: "Ghika has extended the boundaries of cubism...
Soon after the announcement that the gaunt, gangling chemistry professor was to be their new president, two members of the Harvard faculty gloomily sat down one day in 1933 to talk the matter over. "Well, after all," said one, trying to cheer himself up, "Charles W. Eliot was a chemist, too." "But," countered his colleague, "Eliot, you see, wasn't a very good chemist-and this...
...music topic in Los Angeles last week was the cool jazz of a gaunt, hungry-looking young (25) fellow named Gerry Mulligan, who plays the baritone saxophone. For the past three months, Mulligan's quartet has been performing in a nightclub known as the Haig, a spot that has featured such stalwarts as Red Norvo and Erroll Garner-and he was drawing the biggest crowds in the club's history. Says the Haig's happy manager: "People just like his kind of sound...
...after a long interval of historical filibustering, Novelist Street sends Lepe off with Christopher Columbus in search of India. The gaunt Genoese captain promises an annual pension of 25,000 maravedis to the man who first sights land, and Lepe is the lucky fellow. But his luck turns to wormwood when Columbus cheats him of the money. Embittered, Lepe settles in North Africa, marries somebody less fascinating than Maraela, and grows rich. At the end, Lepe earns the satisfaction of having a broken Columbus beg him for money, and a broken Maraela beg him for pity...