Word: pale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other circumstances the man in the wheelchair would have seemed a pathetic figure. He had been at Buchenwald concentration camp. His face was pale and craggy, his left arm a stump, his right leg missing. Sick and shattered, he looked older than his 43 years. But in Bayreuth Circuit Court last week spectators hissed as the man was carried past. "Beast!" they cried. "Monster...
There were young men in cotton cord suits, belt-buckled and buttoned and pale blue starched; there were sweat-shirt and tennis-shoe esthetes and the wearily omniscient...
...Spearhead & the Stave. Against this thesis of an officers' conspiracy, pale, intense Gaullist Minister André Malraux pitted an eloquence doomed to be soon silenced. (At week's end, Malraux, although retained in the Cabinet, was relieved of his post as spokesman for the De Gaulle government.) Malraux is the author of some of the most influential French novels of this century (Man's Fate, Man's Hope), an erudite art historian (The Voices of Silence, The Metamorphosis of the Gods), and an old revolutionist who served in the Chinese Civil...
...does Audience measure up in the big leagues of the commercial literati? If a magazine is judged on need, reason, or originality, it strikes out without swinging; there is nothing new in Audience. If a magazine is judged by the community which produces it, Cambridge can wash its pale hands and return to ruminations over dark beer and pornography; of the twenty-seven signed articles in the current issue, only two came out of the Brattle Street axis...
...favorite city, James rose above the snobbery of things old or new to capture the wonder of all moving travel experiences: "[Venice] varies like a nervous woman, whom you know only when you know all the aspects of her beauty. She has high spirits or low, she is pale or red, grey or pink, cold or warm, fresh or wan, according to the weather or the hour . . . The place seems to personify itself, to become human and sentient and conscious of your affection. You desire to embrace it, to caress it, to possess it; and finally a soft sense...