Word: greenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second time* in his 6½ years in the White House, President Eisenhower called newsmen to a special conference in his oval, green-walled office. Lewis Strauss, said Ike, reading a statement that he had scrawled out in black ink shortly before, is "a man who in war and in peace has served his nation loyally, honorably and effectively under four different Presidents. I am losing a truly valuable associate in the business of government. More than this-if the nation is to be denied the right to have as public servants in responsible positions men of his proven character...
...Here." With a green light from the Congregationalists, Delattre poked around North Beach-an Italian neighborhood with a heavy lacing of art galleries, sandal shoppes and beatnickery-and found a 30-by-40-ft. store at Greenwich Street and Grant Avenue. He moved his wife and two children into a flat upstairs, furnished the store with a hi-fi set, a coffee urn and 2,000 books of his own, and opened up a year...
With the eyes of Texas upon her, Callas suffered spasms of precurtain nerves. "If you cut me with a knife," said she, "no blood would run out." But she turned up onstage convincingly gaunt, wild-eyed, almost green with malevolence and makeup. She paced the stage and clawed the air like a caged lioness. Callas took twelve curtain calls, earned, mighty critical bravos ("terrifying," "elemental," "chilling") for a superb dramatic display. As for her voice, critics as usual found it uneven; the Daily Telegraph judged it "disappointingly small and lacking in resonance." But without the Callas dramatic presence, critics agreed...
...ever made with both her brothers, Rasputin and the Empress. In 1936 she announced her retirement from the stage; scarcely a year later she was back on the boards in The Ghost of Yankee Doodle. In 1940 her portrayal of the wise, warmhearted schoolmistress in The Corn Is Green became her greatest triumph. Audiences still cheered her on to her familiar curtain-call farewell: "That's all there is, there isn't any more...
...translation by Peter Green, Kessel's prose comes out as National Geographic exclamatory. Kessel has an eye and nose for Africa, from the way Masai warriors dress their hair (with red clay) to the construction of a native hut (from cow dung). But apparently he was trying to crossbreed Lolita with Rima, the bird-girl, and to enhance the result with the mystical animal overtones of Romain Gary's The Roots of Heaven. He professes to see Patricia as a study in "the passage from innocence to non-innocence." But the reader who, like the monkey, pulls...