Word: lurked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nude are the most provocative part of the book to the general reader, the scope of Clark's analysis remains overwhelming, as well as the pleasant mixture of scholarship and iconoclasm in his tone. He writes with a simple eloquence that hides the labor of the file which must lurk in his carefully wrought phrases and comparisons. Perhaps his eloquence has the unhappy effect of making one think that the book communicates more than it does; to "explain" the Greeks, Michelangelo, Botticelli, Renoir, Picasso forces a certain glibness, even what seems like a comparatively limited aspect of art history...
...life during that period was like an exciting detective story. We had dark secrets and passwords; we used to lurk in the shadows; we used to collect pistols and hand grenades, and the firing of bullets was the hope we dreamed about. We made many attempts in this direction, and I can still remember our impressions and feelings as we pressed along this path to its logical conclusion...
...play even has a happy ending for everyone. Contrary to the consensus, there was much humor in Ibsen himself and in his plays, though in the latter it resulted more from comic characters than from comic situations. Still, hearty laughter is absent; and disturbing arriere-pensees always lurk in the offing...
...disappointed passion lurk'd below...
Berlin, city of rubble, refugees, and occasional patches of glitter, is an Alfred Hitchcock dream of subterfuge and suspicion. In back streets, darkly mysterious houses lurk behind high wire fences suggestive of darker and more mysterious doings within. Newsmen recently counted 27 separate agencies of Western intelligence known to be at work in Berlin. Their operatives-some fashionably clothed in the grey flannel of New York's Madison Avenue, some with armpit holsters bulging under blue serge-report to different headquarters, and rarely know what their colleagues...