Word: inners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crowd, muttering: "My God, four ballots and five Pouilly-Fuissés and still these gentlemen have decided nothing!" Someone said: "They are not going to award a prize this year, they are not..." A voice roared: "Passageway! Clear a space for the photographers!" The door of the inner room opened, and looking solemnly down on the surging crowd stood Pierre Mac Orlan, painter, novelist, .and youngest (67) member of the academy, who, by tradition, must announce the winner. Slowly Mac Orlan came down the steps, pushed his way to the microphone. Said he: "The Prix Goncourt for 1950 goes...
...inner office of the city hall, Lieut. Colonel John Joseph Livingston of Alexandria, Va., deputy chief of the U.S. Army's civil assistance team, sat wearing a sheepskin vest with a pistol strapped around his chest. His telephone rang. He sent an officer down for the mayor. The mayor had gone home. "Get somebody else, then," Livingston said. The officer went down and came back again. "There's nobody, Colonel. Only one man, and I don't even think he works here. I think he's a social friend of somebody in the office and maybe...
...these are superficial impressions, first impressions . . . Each one of his pictures is part of himself. But what kind of man is he? What is his inner world worth? Is it worth knowing, or is it totally undistinguished? Damn it, if I must judge a painting by the artist it is no longer the painting that I am interested...
...Worthington '52, right inner for the Annex, was chosen to the second all-college team...
This is partly due to Jessica Tandy's highly resourceful performance as Hilda, reminiscent though it is of her Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire. She portrays a woman full of inner violence and contradictory cravings, with overnight-hotel-room emotions that can find no permanent home. If she cannot really illuminate the part from within, outwardly she gives it an almost showy brilliance...