Word: narrowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...center of the excitement was the delegation from Russia and the Iron Curtain countries of Europe. Their boss and director was ruddy, narrow-eyed Alexander Fadeev, political boss of Soviet writers, who is reputed to be an MVD official assigned to the part of an intellectual in search of peace. Their showpiece-and the only visitor of major stature-was Composer Dmitri Shostakovich. A shy, stiff-shouldered man with a pale, wide forehead, Shostakovich was painfully ill at ease. To the repeated ovations he received he ducked his head abruptly again & again, like a small boy after a commencement speech...
...Rivera: 50 Years of His Work, she says: "Looking at Diego . . . you immediately think of a boy frog standing on his hind legs. His skin is greenish white, like that of an aquatic animal. Only his hands and face are darker, the sun having burnt them. His baby shoulders, narrow and round, flow without angles into feminine arms and end in marvelous hands, small and of delicate design ... His huge stomach, drawn tight and smooth as a sphere, rests on strong legs . . . that end in large feet pointing outward in an obtuse angle as if to take...
When the final vote was taken, the bill was defeated by a narrow margin of 87 to 84. "It's a great moral victory," said Dr. Follick. "We shall...
Pretty Vivien Leigh tripped daintily up the narrow, old-fashioned stairs in her London home, caught her foot in the hem of the fur coat she was carrying, tumbled down again. A sprained back forced her to step out of her three current Old Vic roles for two weeks. Said Vivien: "It was a beautiful fall." Said husband Sir Laurence Olivier: "My God, I thought she had broken her neck...
What makes this book so valuable is the fact that there is enough meat in it to keep thoughtful readers growling over it indefinitely. The critic may well argue that Eliot's definition of culture is too personal and too narrow. He may insist that few aristocrats contribute as much to culture as they drain from it-and that the same may be said of poverty, illiteracy, class friction and bigotry. He may even insist, as most people do, that the flexible human race can always be relied on to re-create a new culture even while...