Word: graspingly
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...spring and summer too-was Dior's Marc Bohan. Overshadowed a few seasons ago by the much-heralded Yves St. Laurent, Bohan was clearly back In, with tenure. In a bouleversant collection hailed as the most beautiful in years, Bohan took fashion out of the bony grasp of the mannequins and gave it back to the women whose extra inch of hip or bosom, however fetching to the male eye, have made them high fashion's untouchables. Exclaimed Best-Dressed Jacqueline de Ribes: "I am so happy...
...this collection of essays and letters, Merton punctures the white liberal's complacent participation in the civil rights movement as a kind of self-indulgence that is of "no interest to the Negro." In his view, what the Southern segregationist realizes, and the Northern liberal fails to grasp, is that with full and meaningful integration of the Negro, "society is going to be radically changed." However, says Merton, before the Negro revolution ever nears fulfillment, the liberal will respond by "goosestepping down Massachusetts Avenue." If this vision seems extravagant, the author argues persuasively that the struggle is a preordained...
...first place, new medicines and methods of treatment require a high degree of scientific sophistication on the part of their users. One does not, of course, have to have majored in the sciences to have the necessary grasp of them...
...world waited to write his eulogies. Statesman and politician, historian and painter, orater and adventurer, his versatility, energy and excellence made him a revered and legendary figure ten years before his death. But imposing as his accomplishments are--his thirty volumes, his Nobel Prize, his magnificient speeches, his lucid grasp of European politics, his war-time greatness--it is ultimately his spirit, the proud, fierce joy with which he lived, that is most awesome...
...book, entitled Law and Lawyers in the United States: The Common Law Under Stress, Griswold said that the great hopes embodied in the Civil War Amendments to the Constitution "have continuously eluded our grasp...