Word: owlish
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...lobby afterwards, owlish Alexander Volinine, Pavlova's partner for 13 years, muttered: "Verry myzterious." A pallid Parisian hostess shuddered: "It's like looking into the souls of horrid people -the ones one walks away from." Wrote Combat's critic: "Martha, by her continuous internal tension, as in a trance, is able to communicate all the scale of human sentiments." Le Monde found that 'those naked feet lifted, brandished menacingly ... end by being an obsession." Martha Graham took this French coolness in her stride. "You see," she said, "it's a universal problem. Some like...
...Owlish, talented little Dmitri Shostakovich, who intimately knows that a Russian composer must sing in tune with the Communist Party's harmonic scheme, last week gave faithful praise to the blower of the U.S.S.R.'s biggest pitch pipe: Joseph Stalin himself...
...thing the big four have in common, beyond their perfect records and the prospect of one or more men each on 1949's All-America, is coaching power. At Berkeley, California's owlish Coach Lynn ("Pappy") Waldorf admits that it is one of the reasons for the widening gap between football's haves and havenots. In preparation for a game, he asks his scouts three short questions: "How can we win? Where can we gain? What must we stop?" While assistant coaches are drumming the answers into California's well-organized platoons, Chief Organizer Waldorf paces...
...Owlish, Hungarian-born Dr. Somogyi is a biochemist in the Jewish Hospital of St. Louis. But he is not an M.D., and so is not allowed to treat patients or see them professionally unless a cooperative doctor leads them into Somogyi's office for consultation. But, "looking over the shoulders of physicians," as he puts it, Somogyi has had a hand in treating 4,000 new cases of diabetes in the last 14 years. He has also been consulted in 300 to 400 other cases which had been previously "mismanaged" (by his standards) by other doctors...
...Owlish, excitable Ralph Coghlan (rhymes with oglin') has a singular facility for making people mad. In ten often-turbulent years as editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's editorial page, he has assailed, annoyed and angered many a judge, politician and businessman. Sometimes his editorial trumpeting was in the best crusading tradition of the Post-Dispatch; at other times, it was shrill...