Word: gazes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heyday, Mao is quoted as the ultimate authority on ideology, military science, steel production, poetry, art, and the uses of fertilizer. Every proclaimed achievement begins with the phrase "Thanks to Chairman Mao." His public appearances arouse excitement bordering on hysteria, evoke near tearful tributes to his "affectionate and kindly gaze.'' Nor are foreigners immune to his spell: Brazilian Sculptor Maria Martins recalls him as "a glowing image-a genius in terms of 20th century politics and a sage out of ancient China...
...Communist Politburo, he is a poor administrator ("Vague about details and has a rather poor memory about people who are not constantly around him"). Essentially, Mao's world is an imaginary one-a curious melange of Chinese monarchical concepts and Marxist ideology. And behind the benevolent, Buddha-like gaze lie vast personal ambition and ruthless purpose. To a sentimental intellectual who once suggested that "Communism is Love," Mao replied: "No, comrade, Communism is not love; it is a hammer which we use to destroy the enemy...
...could be called an "authority" on existentialism, Professor Earle is visiting from Northwestern during the fall term, after which he will have a year's leave of absence to write a book. A medium-sized, broad-shouldered Midwesterner, he is characterized by horn-rimmed glasses and an intense gaze and manner...
Straining Men's Energies. From the start British Columbia has strained men's energies. The first Briton to land there, Captain James Cook, put in at Nootka Sound in 1778 to gaze at the stands of tall timber, the schools of ocean salmon and herds of sea otter. Within a few years British merchantmen plied regular routes from the British Columbia coasts with cargoes of furs for China, Britain and the U.S. Pelts were only the beginning. The cry "gold" brought a clamoring horde of adventurers sweeping north from the U.S. to mining camps along the Fraser...
...quatrain that Poet Edmund Gosse (1849-1928) claimed was written by his housemaid ad found under her mattress: O moon, when I look on thy beautiful face Careering along through the boundries of space The thought has quite frequently come in my mind. If I'll ever gaze on thy glorious behind...