Word: hand
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...note that the words "bumptious young Americans" are used to describe those who founded the Paris Review [Aug. 11]. If the word bumptious is to be interpreted as "offensively self-assertive," it might better be applied to those who had whatever hand in producing this particular story. The Review was founded by Harold L. Humes and Peter Matthiessen, the author of two novels and many notable short stories. The first two recruits were George A. Plimpton and Thomas H. Guinzburg...
...find peace. Now I imagine things. I see things." His love turns into hate, first suicidal, then homicidal. In the final scene, after Maria's husband has returned, Donato's mother motions Maria out of harm's way, aims the pistol in Donato's hand at a blank wall and sings: "Yes. my son, kill her!" Donato fires. Horrified but unharmed, Maria remains silent. As Donato and his mother leave to seek sanctuary across the frontier, the mother sings: "She is yours forever now . .. You're free...
...Seventh-day Adventist schoolteacher from Brazil; tall Roman Catholic Paul Guillamier, 19, of Malta, who brought his parish priest with him; matronly Protestant Convert Sara Rabinowitz of Mexico. These and the other contestants (representing Argentina, Colombia, Finland, France, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, South Africa, Sweden and Uruguay) were on hand for the big international Bible quiz, sponsored by an Israeli group to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Israel's statehood...
...always have his present preferred status; J. P. Morgan once smashed Rosy's camera with a cane when Rosy tried to sneak a shot of the old yachtsman coming ashore from his famed Corsair. Photographing yachts in all kinds of weather, Rosy has hung by one hand from a halyard and thudded his skull against Foto's deck, but has never gone overboard...
...archbishop put the extortioner under a ban of excommunication. This failed to move the rich skinflint, so the church suspended all divine service. This meant total war, and the viceroy moved to arrest the archbishop. Gage's picture of the archbishop-mitered, robed, with the Host in his hand defying the King's officers-is a great scene despite Gage's intention; he only meant to draw a moral for his Puritan readers against the "proud prelate...