Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vision of their Führer's "Gotterdämmerung," just a nagging sense of failure ("They meant to defend a Thermopylae, but there was no Thermopylae to defend"). Himself a fighter pilot in World War II, Gerd Gaiser puts a peculiar mystique about Hitler in the mouth of one of his characters: "God has sent him to us and he has come to corrupt us. I understand that and yet I don't." More easily understandable are onetime Painter Gaiser's word pictures of a flyer's lonely communion with sun, sky and sea, which...
...realities to light philosophy, Perle reminisced about her old job as U.S. Minister to Luxembourg: "I learned to stop and listen. Told that to a reporter one day, and I got a letter from a woman who said, 'Thank God, you've learned to keep your big mouth shut...
...utmost simplicity and force. Hiscox stands above the viewer, as in a pulpit. Though the minister's hair has a certain flowing grace, the rest of him does not. He looks like a bullfrog. The powerful throat seems to be preparing its organ tones; the wide, traplike mouth is about to open. Meanwhile, the brilliantly modeled eyes focus with disdain upon someone in the back row−whether a sinner or a sneezer. The portrait achieves a quality rare in most places and times, and almost unheard of in its own: immediacy...
...word of mouth, by reliable letters, by diligent reading of the Red China press, the refugees can gather telling clues about what happens to the students who return. One New York student asked a friend to send a picture of himself when he got back to Red China, standing if life was fine, sitting if things were soso, lying down if they were bad. Back came a picture of his friend, lying on a park bench, his head below the level of his feet...
...labor camp. Huang Chiateh, once a professor at Shanghai's St. John's University, was put to work in a coal mine. One student was compelled to write a "thought compendium," and, for "lack of frankness," to slap himself publicly until blood ran out of his mouth. Often Red China's own propaganda betrays itself. "You people living in the other world don't understand our world," another returnee wrote to friends in the U.S. "Here every hair, every thread we have is for the Party...