Word: limned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Publication of a manifesto on African socialism, the first sober attempt to limn a realistic concept out of the woolly catch phrase so beloved of African speechmakers. Remarkably restrained and reasoned, it rejects 19th century capitalism and 20th century Communism as a model for emergent African society. Instead, the document points to a mixed economy very like modern Britain or Sweden, strongly emphasizes individual political freedoms. Though Kenyatta insisted that the paper, written by Economics Planning Minister Tom Mboya, was approved by all his Cabinet, it was clearly a bitter blow for Odinga...
...page is often contained in a brief line that emphasizes a chin, droops an eyelid or curves a mouth. Under the pen of a skilled cartoonist, a man's face can become a political comment, and Barry Goldwater has a face that most cartoonists find a delight to limn...
Others are not so certain that it's all that easy to limn the essential Lyndon. At the Christian Science Monitor, Cartoonist Guernsey Le Pelley practiced for a week while committing the President to print, and even now draws guardedly: "You change Johnson too much and he looks like Eleanor Roosevelt." Don Wright of the Miami News finds Johnson a slippery subject. "If you aren't sure you have him, you put him in a ten-gallon hat." In the same way and for the same reason, many cartoonists suit up the President in cowboy uniform, right down...
...sighed Glazunov, the man who created a Moscow sensation a few years back by exhibiting a nude study of his wife. He first sketched Gina during the 1961 Moscow Film Festival, and finally, more than a year later, she wangled permission for him to come to Italy and limn a life-sized portrait. But, alas, no nudity. "Youth and spring.'' said the portraitist, "this is what I'll have to show through her pink formal dress...
...pulsating finish that left 19,000 hysterical onlookers limn with excitement, Chicago Loyola won the NCAA basketball title with an 60-58 overtime upset over Cincinnati Saturday night...