Word: gazing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hear the verdict on himself. As befits a successful and distinguished man, a major general in the National Guard, twice Governor ot Illinois he looked calm and controlled. He searched the faces of the jury-seven men and five women, including housewives and hand laborers-who all avoided his gaze. The foreman said that the jury had reached a verdict, after 16 hours of deliberation, and he handed a sealed envelope to the clerk. Guilty on all counts...
Asked if voices were raised in anger during the meeting, Mrs. Meir replied: "God forbid! Everything went off in meticulous quiet, in holiness. But we gazed at each other frankly. His eyes bored deep into me, and I looked back with an open, strong, honest gaze, and I decided I would not lower my eyes under any circumstances. And I didn...
...ended all his fables. There is a great deal more satisfaction in actually doing something than there is in just admiring something someone else has done. Everyone has heard of Rembrandt, but who knows or cares about John Jones, who spends crates of crud to cross the ocean and gaze uncomprehendingly at his pictures...
CYNICS, according to Oscar Wilde, are those who know the price of everything and the value of nothing. Faced with the vast menu of life, they gaze exclusively at the right-hand side-until, at last, they forget why they came in. For Christmas and the New Year, then, let this be their gift: to lose their jaded tastes, their ennui with ordinary extravagance and to gain an appetite for value as well as price. If they must commit the venal sin of self-indulgence, let them learn to do it in style...
...late work, the genius for politics and administration, by which a London tailor's son became the virtual founder of the British navy at the opening of its 250-year supremacy. The full, recurving, sensuous mouth betrays the man of pleasure. But the eyes, the liquid, curious, direct gaze, speak the passionate observer he was, like a "child to see any strange thing," then living it again vividly in recollection...