Word: hiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...represent man." But man is a strange creature to Alechinsky, brought up on a tradition of Hieronymus Bosch and James Ensor, and his provocations have led to a bestiary of amorphous animals, gloopy noggins, jumbles of legs. For him, "the canvas is a proving ground, not a screen to hide behind...
...Buddhists awoke to find themselves in new positions of leverage. Their power stemmed from one source more than any other: the village pagoda, which today remains what it has been for centuries?the center of rural life, a place where laymen can go to sleep off a hangover, hide out from the police, or spend an undisturbed hour with their girl friends. The bonzes are schoolmasters and doctors, as well as priests...
This description joined the list of unflattering epithets -among them "chronic liar," "journalistic polecat" and s.o.b.-that have already been hurled at Pearson without puncturing his hide. But the News-Miner's phrase hit him smack in the reputation-or so the columnist claimed in a $176,000 libel suit. In his own defense, Pearson produced almost half a dozen character witnesses, among them the gentleman farmer whose 499 acres are near the Pearson property in Maryland: US Senator Wayne Morse...
...hide nor hair...
...interested to see Lee Oswald's pseudonym, "Alek James Hidell." Note that "Hidell" can be considered a contraction for "Hide" and "Jekell." It seems to me that we have here some evidence-of a speculative psychodynamic sort-that in the adoption of this pseudonym, Oswald gave (unconscious?) recognition to his own mentally unbalanced identity...