Word: outward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This precious caricature was never really accurate. But it was never more misleading than when applied to John Keats, the one Romantic poet whose outward life it seemed most to resemble. Keats's life was a series of buffetings by a fate cruel enough to suit the most sentimental of Victorian preconceptions. He lost his father at eight, his mother at 14, his brother Tom at 23, and died himself of tuberculosis at 25. His appointed guardian, Tea Merchant George Abbey, hated him. Abbey apprenticed him to a doctor, tried to keep him from seeing his younger sister Fanny...
...Algemeen Handelsblad-can transcend mere exaggeration to reach with a few lines the essence of a subject's character. "It is not simply a matter of drawing a big nose bigger and a floppy ear floppier," Kelen writes. "It involves an evaluation of the inner man through his outward features. A caricature is an opinion." For 40 years, from the League of Nations to the United Nations, Kelen scanned the world's leaders like road maps-and usually their faces told him just where they were going...
...previous volumes, Durant scants parts of his story to speak at leisurely length of the poets, philosophers, and men of science he admires. He finds little space to discuss the great outward thrust that sent 17th century Englishmen, Frenchmen and Dutchmen around the globe. And although he writes of the statesmen and military leaders who helped shape the age-Cromwell, Marlborough, Peter the Great, Frederick William of Brandenburg-his sympathies lie with that other breed of 17th century men who made "all the motions of matter seem to fall into an order of law and the immensity of the universe...
...first book was a monumental failure, and of it Yevtushenko writes: "Who could care about my pretty rhymes and striking images if they were nothing but curlicues decorating a vacuum?" So he turned outward, and began to become aware of "the beautiful ... world of real people." At the same time, the young Yevtushenko was deeply imbued with "the romantic ideals of the workers and soldiers who stormed the Winter Palace in 1917," and looked upon the world "with a revolutionary's scornful gaze...
...Leverkusen and 3,000 employees. Came the cold war and Bayer in 1952 was permitted to repossess most of its prewar plants and resume full speed. Bayer's Rhineside headquarters at Leverjusen now embrace 600 buildings, including a 33-story skyscraper that is Germany's tallest. Looking Outward. A concentration on foreign markets has helped put Bayer ahead of its German competitors. Nearly half its sales are exports, and it has interests in 132 foreign companies...