Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plays were written. Anti-Shakespearean students are prepared to believe almost anything, but none of them has ever suggested that Marlowe went on writing after he was dead. Heaven only knows why. Calvin Hoffman, a reporter, drama critic, Shakespearean scholar, is the first man to try to grasp this nettle firmly...
...illustrations of a recent edition of Aesop's Fables. Calder's depiction of a vain crow being adorned with peacock feathers by his feathered friends has more wit than force, and looks more like a bent-wire construction than a drawing, but any child can grasp it and enjoy...
...best advice for enjoying Calder's whimsically titled sculpture was given by the artist himself: "That others grasp what I have in mind seems unessential, at least as long as they have something else in theirs...
Pierre Mendès-France nearly had it in his hand. Before he could grasp it, he was thrown out of office. Last week Mendès-France's successor. Premier Edgar Faure. closed his fingers on it: a settlement between France and Tunisia which, if carried out by men of good will, may bring an end to bloodshed and revolt in Tunisia, and diminish the despair and desperation in neighboring Morocco and Algeria...
...Anthony is now ready, willing and able to take over the mantle of one whose fame he cannot hope to match but whose job, he is sure, he can fill. With the prize nearly within his grasp, Eden has visibly grown in assurance, authority and poise. The best years of his life may still be ahead...