Word: logged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...couple who balance on a plank on a log over an open cage of roaring lions...
...Vagabond feels the need of disgression himself. Climbing up his ladder tonight the Old Fellow found the rungs covered with ice! Winter is showing his sharpest teeth. The Tower at this moment is no picnic. Another log, ye merry hag. And fetch the Vagabond's cloak! We'll bear this through as in many winters past. Freedom! Freedom! Isn't that what George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron died for? Another log, merry hag! My fingers are a cold...
...striding out to his farmlands, in the evenings when he plodded wearily home. Intent was to keep the music "roughhewn, sinewy and directly outspoken." In his dry, blunt speech. Composer Harris makes much of his background, of the fact that he was born 38 years ago in an Oklahoma log cabin which his father hewed by hand, of his own early years spent farming in California's San Gabriel Valley. At the age when most would-be composers are hard at their technical training, Roy Harris was soldiering. When the War was over he went West again, drove...
...must also be shown overcoming difficulties, but unless his most serious problems are fully described, the difficulties must always seem minor, the defeats astonishingly unimportant. Thus, most volumes of this kind create the impression that the acquisition of millions is about as hard and heroic as falling off a log...
...malice by reviewing the individual's good qualities. The idiosyncracies that others have ascribed to Proust- his practice of attending parties bundled in heavy overcoats, his flowery and affected speech-seem not to have bothered Marie Scheikévitch in the least. She describes the heavy log-rolling that went on before Swann's Way appeared, in order to insure it a good press, Proust's anxiety about the reception of his work. Proust died in agony almost as soon as his masterpiece was finished, and in his delirium imagined that a hideous fat woman, dressed...