Word: limpidness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...limpid moon ascends majestically to her zenith, to the wistful baying of the tethered hound; as the last stately ice floe drifts sedately between the burgeoning shores of the historic Charles, then indeed is the voice of the turtle heard in the land...
Wrapped up in the limpid legend of southern Eire, Three Wishes for Jamie is a pleasant tale of simple Irish folk, a mild musical comedy tastefully done...
When the book was published in England as The False Start, the critics dusted off some of their most generous phrases. The New Statesman and Nation called it a "limpid and exquisite love story"; The Recorder suggested that young Rossi might grow up to become "another Flaubert." Young Jean's little novel has now been published in the U.S. under the title Awakening, and, while it seems to have been a bit overrated, it is at least a remarkable book for a teen-age author...
FRANCE Green Eyes "From the first it was Sylvie's eyes," wrote French Novelist Jean-Louis Bory (1945 Prix Goncourt). "I saw them as green, but was it green? Clear and deep, surely-and with a cold limpid quality that masked her glance better than closed eyelids." Others had gazed into Sylvie Paul's eyes and tried to plumb their mystery-fellow fighters in the Resistance, German officers from whom she coaxed many a secret, Gestapo bullies at Ravensbrück concentration camp...
...town of Drayneflete is not to be found on the usual maps of Britain for the very good reason that Osbert Lancaster made it up. To British Cartoonist Lancaster, nonetheless, Drayneflete (on the "limpid Drayne") is like so many real English towns that it might as well stand for the average. In a series of witty drawings tracing its development from Roman times to the present, Lancaster shows just how it got to look the way it does, and how it may look when the town-planning bugs get through with...