Word: gazed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Banyuls, the same houses, same windmills, same trees and flowers." When a student later said to him, "The Acropolis must have struck you in the face," Maillol quietly replied, "On the contrary, it gave me a kiss." Like early Greek statues, Maillol's nudes wear an expressionless gaze; his statues are neither anecdotal nor are they portraits. "I look for beauty, not character," he said. "I look for architecture and volume. Sculpture is architecture, the equilibrium of masses, a composition with taste...
...gaze blank and pitiless...
Versailles, a fairy-tale palace even in the worst of weather, never looked more romantic. At evening's end, Kennedy and Jackie drove past the lighted buildings and fountains, twice stopped to gaze at the haunting, misty landscape. With more than usual tenderness. John Kennedy escorted his wife from their car, took her arm as they walked out toward the shadowed columns of heroic statues. De Gaulle joined them, and there, with the reminder of the grandeur that was France in the background, the two men solemnly shook hands and said goodnight...
...midmorning on May 5, 1961. U.S. President John F. Kennedy, his wife and a group of his closest associates in Government stood in a White House office room, their gaze fastened upon a television screen. Like millions of Americans in millions of other homes, they held their breath, crossed their fingers and prayed as they watched the Redstone rocket belch flame on its Cape Canaveral firing pad, lift off with maddening slowness, then streak magnificently southward...
...really tried to look, said Eichmann's dry, pedantic voice. There was Litzmannstadt, where Jews were gassed in a closed truck: "All the time, I was trying to avert my gaze from what was going on. It was quite enough for me what I saw. The screaming and shrieking!" When the truck stopped at an open pit, "the corpses were hurled into the ditch. I also saw how teeth were being extracted. I entered my car and I did not want to look at this heinous act of turpitude...