Word: gauntness
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...slowly and flaying the cotton-frothed, billiard table flatness of the Delta. Stilted shacks in willow-ringed hollows; tall merciless lilywhite factory stacks; "The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Welcome you to Tchula;" grinning, barefoot, ragged black boys skimming along the highway on a pickup truck; Tall, gaunt, stooped, tobacco chewing, strawhatted farmers--black and white. Neat brick middle-class American homes...Troopers and policemen everywhere, fat comic opera sherrifs in stenciled boots and stetsons. "K.O. the Kennedys!--Vote Rubel Phillips (Rep)" billboards, "Maintain White Democratic Solidarity--Vote Paul Johnson (Dem)" billboards, Kiwanis! Rotary! Order of the Eastern Star...
...books, paintings and plays of social protest, the Ruhr Valley was long pictured as a brutally black furnace of heavy industry, as ugly as the coalpits on which it is built. It has also been presented as a land populated by gaunt miners and ruled ruthlessly by a wealthy elite of powerful iron and war mongers. At various times the Ruhr indeed may have fitted these descriptions, but things have changed. "That is the legend of the Ruhr," says Gerhard Kienbaum, economics minister of West Germany's state of North Rhine-Westphalia. "Today it corresponds to reality about...
YVES BRAYER-Wildenstein, 19 East 64th. Sixty-six oils, watercolors and drawings reflect the dizzying, dazzling light that never seems to set over the gaunt landscapes of the Mediterranean. First U.S. exhibition by this French traditionalist. Through...
...main counts against McCormack are his age, his background as a South Boston machine politician, his intellect, and his lack of experience in foreign affairs. At 72, he would indeed be older than any previous U.S. President. Yet McCormack appears mentally alert and, despite his gaunt, 6-ft. 2-in., 168-lb. frame, physically fit. "I have never been sick in my life," he says. "I have never spent a day in a hospital." A tireless worker, he lives austerely, does not drink, rarely attends social functions...
...after champagne, but Macmillan felt it was his duty to be present. From the front-bench aisle seat that is traditionally reserved for former Prime Ministers, Macmillan finally rose to deliver his last, compellingly honest words on the case that came near to toppling his government last summer. Though gaunt and ashen-faced from his recent illness, 69-year-old Harold Macmillan threw back his shoulders with the kind of dignity under attack that comes instinctively to the Old Guardsman. "Of course," he said, "I was deceived. That must always be for me and for the whole House a great...