Word: limpidness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with Maurice Chevalier ("He was more than just a partner. He was my whole life"). Through all the glitter of her days of fame, she held on to her native French bon sens, acquired a heap of cash, a mound of jewels, three big houses and a limpid philosophy: "I love money. Not just to spend. I like to keep it-wash my hands...
...opening work, Mozart's Quartet in C-major, K.465 (1785), with its famous pessimistic introduction, contains some daring harmony which several of the composer's contemporaries felt obliged to "correct." But just as important is the extraordinarily limpid texture and intense purity that extend from first note to last...
Pakistan's limpid-eyed ex-Prime Minister Mohammed Ali, 45, ambassador to the U.S. for 15 months in 1952-53, was reappointed to his old striped-pants post in the capital. On getting the tidings, Washington's hostesses knitted aging brows. Their problem: If Ali, recently married to a second wife under his Moslem prerogative (TIME, April 18), were to bring both his ladies to Washington, should social invitations include either, neither, or both wives? To their relief, the hostesses read at week's end that Ali had partially solved their problem. He will, according to word...
Wolfson has risen to scholarly preeminence because his work, unlike his maelstrom-like study, is pervaded by an almost classic sense of detail and style. His prose is limpid. His manuscripts often have to wait years of careful research before he submits them to print. His research methods, although seemingly careless, have the same painstaking quality. After be graduated from Harvard in 1911, Wolfson went on a Sheldon Fellowship to Europe theoretically for pleasurable travel. He traveled alright, but from one library to another, Paris, Parma, Rome, and Cambridge, for a year and a half, reading copiously and taking detailed...
...tillon, 52, a diminutive Belgian barrister who stands but 5 ft. 3 in. in his epauleted white uniform. Known as the "Little Lion" to the 5,000 Belgian civil servants who govern the Congo on his orders, Pétillon has an actor's mobile face, slow limpid speech, and graceful white hands which more often than not gesticulate with a lighted Camel to emphasize a point. An old Africa hand, he is guided by a motto like that of his predecessors: Dominer pour Servir-dominate to serve...