Word: gazed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comparison with such illustrators as John Tenniel and Edward Lear. His Grimm pictures draw on a tradition that encompasses not only the lessons of 15th and 16th century engraving but the lyricism of English illustrators of the 1860s. There is even a personal touch. The stocky shapes and inward gaze of some of Sendak's bearded peasants suggest the vanished rural world of Polish Jewry that Sendak's father migrated from early in the century...
...have weathered. But we never learn what it is that everyone is so excited and enlightened about. With this unfortunate handicap, we have trouble feeling convinced when someone has a major life-transforming experience with no more warning, motivation or inducement than a wistful look or a quick crosslegged gaze into the horizon. Siddhartha and his friends, wherever they go, seem to "learn" with inordinate alacrity--they will convert immediately, throwing themselves at the feet of and dedicating their lives to someone they have known for all of 30 seconds...
G.N.P. When the Board last met in September, it predicted that the real expansion of the gross national product would slow from 6% in 1973 to 2% or so next year. Those members who were willing last week to gaze into the future prophesied that the boycott would trim at least 1% from their earlier forecasts of real growth. Harvard's Otto Eckstein, head of Data Resources Inc., believes that the G.N.P. will increase by 1.6% instead of 2.6% next year, assuming that the Arabs relent by April 1. But Alan Greenspan says that even if the oil resumes...
Until then the browsers and shoppers in Copley Square can gaze on the craftsmanship of Henry Hobson Richardson's Trinity Church, dnagle their feet in the fountain beside the church, or stroll through the new wind of the Boston Public Library...
...they had best not gaze up the 60 stories of the Hancock Building unless they prepare themselves for an aesthetic shock. For hovering above Copley Square--one of Boston's most pleasant sections--is the unfinished checkered Hancock monolith...