Word: glimmered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...swift little thoughts are not entirely a cadence of despair. Some are funny. Some show a very individual and perplexing insight. Others are uninspired. Occasionally, there is a surprising glimmer of positivism. Random samples...
...Reed College, obviously cloisters the most evil of all intentions within his crafty mind. No one could doubt that he is dedicated to the utter humiliation of the Club. For he is embarking upon an experiment which is altogether too daring, too wild, too foolish, to merit the least glimmer of hope for success--he is exhibiting representational, objective...
...Gaulle made it clear that no French troops would be committed to preserve Laotian freedom. At this conference, Kennedy shared equally in the conversation time, impressed De Gaulle with his sure knowledge of the subject matter (he used no notes), his occasional sharp turns of phrase. There was no glimmer of possible friction, and Kennedy told an aide later: "You know, we do seem to get along well...
...pockets for a prepared statement, and read it in a flat monotone voice. He reiterated his Paris line that the summit failure was the fault of the U.S., and sneered at nameless U.S. statesmen who "are pulled on the strings of the militarists." But that was the last glimmer of fire. For a man who had just stormed out of Paris spewing a blizzard of invective and cracking jokes right and left, his performance was odd, unexpected, and curiously neutral...
...glimmer of sight left to the novel's hero makes him an outsider in the reverse-snob clannishness of the totally blind; yet he cherishes his tentative friendships. There is Little Jens, a cripple locked in creaky thongs and trusses, who has a gentle faith that all the sightless are under God's special bless ing. There is Adolf, who endlessly rubs his eyes so that he can "see" the spray of flames that constitutes his last childhood memory of the sighted world. Author Bjarnhof sensitively captures the circular, repetitive agony of a blind man's brooding...