Word: grope
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thanking his assembled friends, his wife Ise told them that prior to the operation. Grope--the name by which they knew him -- had only asked of himself one question: "I've had so much of life, should I ask for more...
...contents. Bruner's youngest subjects -under one year-typically reach for the toy with one hand, encounter the transparent obstacle and bang on it or give up, either in slumber, indifference or tears. Older babies may manage to slide the panel up with one hand, then grope awkwardly into the interior and, despite the panel's resistance, occasionally grasp the reward. The most sophisticated infants use both hands, one to hold the panel open, the other to reach inside...
...against emotionalists, opportunists against those who answer only to the hungers of the heart. Like Portia Quayne, the heroine of Bowen's best-known novel. Death of the Heart, Eva leads a life totally unlit by love. She attracts people, but when they reach out for her, they grope in darkness...
Forced to grope into theatrical history for an apt comparison, for a composer who was to the mainstream of Broadway music what Bacharach is to that mainstream now, I'd settle on Harold Arlen. Arlen too had a popular bent, wrote songs consciously and expressly for Negro singers, was by nature incapable of the straight, bright, terribly Broadway, Broadway tunes of which any second-rank Cole Porter creation is the perfect example, and on all these counts had to be regarded as an organism slightly foreign to the theatre (Mr. Arlen will of course forgive the laws of parallelism...
...real world. Into the Cone of Cold is typical: a poet allows himself to be frozen and thawed out again in a scientific experiment; beyond the spooky suspense of the situation, the cone of cold comes to stand for a state of spiritual exile from which the poet must grope back to an altered life...