Word: lucidly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...schizophrenia, became convinced that people were trying to poison her, that men were following her. Psychiatrists gave the Williamses two alternatives: commit Rose to an asylum or risk a prefrontal lobotomy, a much-questioned operation. Williams' parents signed the paper for the operation, which left Rose calmed, often lucid, but incapable of recovery. Guilt at his inability to help his sister engulfed Williams, and she still haunts his memory and imagination. Rose is now in a mental hospital in Westchester County, N.Y., and Williams pays upwards of $1,000 a month for her care. When in New York...
This is a pity, for his impressions of Communist Russia and reactions to war-all on record since 1914--are fascinating, and unfailingly lucid...
...temptation to act rather than speak the words almost overcomes the chorus of peasant women, which makes an excessive search for meaning in the first act. Their lot is made harder by the Gregorian chancel choir, whose lucid chants sets outrageously high standards of precision and tone. Even so, in the second act their tone is just that of the play, and the result is impressive...
...ministry; he is generally acknowledged as the best Protestant preacher in the U.S. He is one of the alltime veterans of the air waves; for 33 years his voice has been heard on the National Radio Pulpit at 10 a.m. Sundays. Shunning the emotionalism of Evangelist Billy Graham, his lucid sermons - many of them published in his 20-odd books - are designed to teach as well as inspire. "You've got to put something in people's heads," he told a friend last week, "rather than just give them a shot...
...passel of Founder-Gambler Frederick Bonfils' hand-me-down maxims, including a standing head that ran over every police story: CRIME NEVER PAYS. One of the most enigmatic samples of U.S. newspaper wisdom comes from Mark 4:28 and runs above the Christian Science Monitor's lucid editorial page. It was adopted at the behest of Founder Mary Baker Eddy, who prescribed the original quote from the King James Version of the Bible: "First the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear." Staving off endless wisecracks, a resourceful editor substituted the verse...