Word: indirectly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indirect Discourse. In Yeats's phrase, it is "the ceremony of innocence," the rite of existence, and Guinness celebrates it in all his roles. Since existence is a mystery, and cannot be seen or touched or understood like a common physical fact, he has developed a peculiarly orphic language of gesture and intonation. He almost never expresses an idea directly. He relies on his audience to understand the essence of a situation, to realize what the character feels and is; and so he takes more trouble to hide what he feels than to reveal it. It is more than...
...innocence abroad. On another it is, perhaps unconsciously, a revealing study of a new phenomenon of history: a British inferiority complex-the mixture of fury and self-pity with which the old cock of the walk surveys the new. On still another level the book is a nervous and indirect reconnaissance of the borders of that undiscovered country of love to which Greene is always journeying without ever quite arriving...
...natural overhead lighting-but without bright success. In 1857 London's Victoria and Albert Museum experimented with fishtail gas jets, lighted by a traveling pilot light that was propelled along a track by a clockwork motor; in 1877 the Victoria and Albert made the first experiment with indirect lighting when military searchlights were reflected from an overhead muslin screen to illuminate paintings. Today, says New York's Metropolitan Museum Director James Rorimer. "the big question is. do you use daylight or electricity?" The obvious answer-"both"-only broadens the debate to problems of how much of each, when...
...spends more and more on airways, highways and waterways for the use of our competitors who contribute little if anything to the cost of local government" through property taxes. James M. Symes, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, No. 1 U.S. carrier, also pleaded with Congress to end direct and indirect subsidies for trucks, airlines and competing carriers. Said Symes: "What we are asking for is the freedom to compete on an equal basis with subsidy to none...
Benheim scored his second goal for the Crimson after five minutes of the third quarter on an indirect kick, when he took a nudge pass from center forward John Hedreen and shot cleanly past Penn goalie Dick Williams...