Word: oneself
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...place his work "with room to stretch the eye beyond," seeing it in relation to sky and trees, on murky days, in summer sunshine and snow, surrounded by space, air and light. "Indoors," he says, "one can put a piece of sculpture under a flattering light and kid oneself that what only half exists is already there, but a sculpture almost fails to exist under the diffused light of the open if it isn't fully conceived in the round...
...Rosalyn Tureck plays Bach, all talk about the necessity of having a harpsichord to recapture Bach's style seems little short of nonsense." The Tablet: "Without doubt, the greatest Bach pianist of today." After last week's performance, Amsterdam's Algemeen Handelsblad said: "One could exhaust oneself in expressions of praise . . . Her interpretation sets a new norm, a standard for the style in which Bach deserves to be played today...
LORD TIMOTHY DEXTER of Newburyport, Mass. Realizing, as no stuffy conformist would, that the quickest way to become a U.S. peer is to confer the title on oneself, Dexter sensibly did just that. "It is the voise of the peopel," he explained in his firm, aristocratic prose, "and I cant Help it and ... it dont hurt A Cat ..." Born in 1747, America's first peer started life "Dressin of skins for briches & glovs," would probably never have grown too big for his briches had he not spent every penny of his savings buying up U.S. "Continentals" and state securities...
Gary Cooper, Hollywood's past master at playing variations on the theme of oneself, is this time cast as a lass-grabbing U.S. tycoon just Gary's age (56). He perfunctorily amasses millions while concentrating chiefly on his globe-girdling conquests; he only counts his assignations, and his corporations take care of themselves. While working on a big deal during his annual Paris fling, Casanova Cooper is rudely interrupted by mysterious, wide-eyed Ariane (Audrey Hepburn). His big deal's husband, warns Audrey, lurks with a loaded revolver just outside Cooper's Ritz suite. Thus saved...
...these children need people to help them play." The role of the volunteer, then, is to teach the mentally disturbed to play. The requirement for that job, aside from being at least eighteen years of age is simply to care and to have an objective emotional control of oneself...