Word: hidden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that a microphone you have hidden there...
Author Proust has been called a human microscope. He called himself a human telescope, prying into people's hidden motives for general psychological laws. Also he is notable as a writer of varied but disconcerting style, due to the extreme length of some of his sentences. To enjoy Proust is to be impressively bookish. Accordingly, Proust is a favorite among poseurs as well as purists...
Entered some Hungarian gendarmes with drawn pistols, forced Vincent Pecha to throw up his hands, searched him, clapped gyves upon his wrists. In the room next to the station restaurant "a secret military document" was found. Using suitable pressure, the Hungarians got Pecha to admit having hidden...
...left-hand panel the motif is that of a mortally wounded soldier clasping in his left arm the shrouded figure of Death and in his right the Winged Victory. Beneath his feet lies a fallen private, and above him are angels blowing trumpets. The face of Death is hidden and the figure wears a crown, but the effect is sombre and terrifying. The Victory, on the other hand, is of a light golden color, affording a radiant contrast to the genius of Death...
...difficulty in finding anyone who can explain the hidden symbolism of the paintings prevents perhaps any indefensible comment upon the emotional result of careful attention to these decorations. The fact, however, that the recumbent figure in the left hand picture wears a helmet strikingly like that of a German infantryman and that standing over him there is an obvious Yankee doughboy clutching Victory and Death lends color to the theory that the natural effect should be one of intense sympathy for the American and something very like hatred for his slayer...