Word: inners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guardian, brother and brother, cousin and cousin, landlord and tenant, illiterate manual laborer and cultured lawyer, and so on. And if this probing embarrasses the spectators by forcing them to associate what they see with their own family experiences, so much the better; for "I've hit the inner truth," Miller once said, "only when I embarrass myself...
...bomb the Navy as a fighting and landing team should be the nation's first force. Then, in 1947, came a brain hemorrhage from which he recovered enough to write, with a collaborator, Fleet Admiral King, a third-person account in which, with typical reticence, little of his inner self was revealed. Its most poignant sentence (in the introduction): "It was only by the unanticipated timing of fate that any use was made of my experience...
...Alexander Calder and whose welded sculpture ran second place to Britain's Reg Butler. This year Chadwick (who works mostly in iron) moved into the lead with his 19 angular, spiky sculptures that came close to being the hit of the Biennale. One of the most discussed works: Inner Eye (see cut), a 7-ft. iron structure with a quartz crystal gripped on spiked arms. It looked alarmingly like a radar man from Mars...
...pleasant Saturday outing a fortnight ago with his son and little grandson. He tramped through woods in sparsely settled Lockwood Valley in California's Ventura County, got in some target practice. Back in El Rio and getting undressed, he noticed a red spot, like a fleabite, on the inner side of his right ankle, but thought nothing of it. Feeling fit on Monday, Sakacs, a retired Navy chief petty officer, put in a full day's work as a mechanic on a water research project at the Port Hueneme naval base. That night he had chills and fever...
Mind if I Make Love to You (Len Dresslar; Mercury). A Cole Porter song, from the forthcoming film High Society, that sounds like one of the old ones, with its well-mannered melody, its discreet rumba rhythm, its inner rhymes. Only the sentiment grates...