Word: loping
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...write. Sometimes he plays hooky in the Yale library ("I flip through an archaeological journal and read a piece about a new excavation in Herculaneum. I even read medical journals"). He "does" Finnegan's Wake, pores over Kierkegaard, works at his hobby of dating the plays of Lope de Vega, strums on the piano, or reads a score of a Palestrina Mass. After lunch he usually takes a long nap. After 5, visitors come ("I like bustle after 5"). Then, pacing about his living room, consumed with his latest enthusiasm, Wilder will talk on & on into the night. Sometimes...
Tony makes his stage entrance in a breathless vaudeville lope. When the applause and giggles have died down, he begins his act, swaying his loose-limbed body, singing in a style derived from several of his colleagues. When he belts and writhes a tune, he sounds like Frankie Laine; he uses Frank Sinatra's phrasing and slurring methods; he occasionally adds a few scale slides reminiscent of Billy Eckstine; at times he seems to be contemplating Bing Crosby's nonchalance, as through a dark glass enviously...
...describe him, they usually fall back on such words as restless, troubled, intense, obsessed. But Greene is not the kind of man who makes a vivid first impression. Tall (6 ft. 3 in.), frail and lanky, he dresses like a careless Oxford undergraduate, walks with a combination roll and lope that emphasizes a slight hump between his shoulders. Physically, he is an easy man to forget (one old acquaintance remembers him simply as "badly made"), except for the face with its wrinkled skin that looks as if it had shaken loose from the flesh, and the startled, startlingly washed...
...spills for Danilova, one for Massine. In the wings, frantic Ballet Master Frederic Franklin told his dancers: "Go slow . . . Don't listen to the music, just go on when I tell you." The critic of the Detroit Times described the usually bouncy exits as like "the pussyfooting lope one takes when, trying to avoid "waking the baby...
Thornton Wilder, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, spoke on the plays of Lope de Vega at the Modern Languages Association's meeting in New York's Hotel Statler December...