Word: gauntness
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...AESTHETIC ADVENTURE-William Gaunt-Harcourt, Brace...
...cantata for orchestra and choir. Although they found it next to impossible to understand the words-from a poem by Briton Stephen Spender-most of the listeners in Manhattan's CBS studio were genuinely moved by the rich orchestration. After the performance, the cantata's composer, gaunt, chestnut-haired Richard Arnell, tall (6 ft.), 27-year-old Briton in a grey flannel suit, coolly explained: "It goes beyond simple pacifism by only presenting the facts and offering no moral conclusions...
Although he is too gaunt and spindle shacked a figure to impress as the perfect Hamlet, Eliot Duvey handles one of Shakespeare's most hazardous roles with confidence and finesse. His Hamlet is cool and calculating, and he convinces his audiences at the outset that his madness has method in it. Handing the difficult soliloquies like the veteran he is, Duvey is at his heat when alone on the stage, for he inclines to recite rather than act his lines...
...gaunt Parisian, gone five years, hurried unannounced to his home. He was too spent to climb the five flights to his door, so the janitor went up to tell his wife the good news. When she came down, her husband lay dead of a heart attack...
Harry Hopkins, gaunt, hollow-eyed adviser-assistant to Franklin Roosevelt, got a salary raise (from $10,000 to $15,000 a year) as of last July n. Paid out of the war emergency funds assigned to the President by Congress, he now gets the same salary he once got as Secretary of Commerce...