Word: pale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mantas in vast flocks flap silently through pale and gloom, a nightmare vision as of witches on their way to the evil sabbath...
Only Bowen's style, then, makes A World of Love an above average work. As her opening description of the countryside around the Irish castle, she writes: "The sun rose on a landscape still pale with the heat of the day before. There was no haze, but a sort of coppery burnish out of the air lit on flowing fields, rocks, the face of one house, and the cliff of limestone overhanging the river. The river gorge cut deep through the uplands. This light at this hour, so unfamiliar, brought into being a new world--painted expectant, empty, intense. This...
Amherst conductor Charles W. Ludington seems not to share Professor Woodworth's views. Largely because of poor diction and breathy tone, the Glee Club's sound was nearly always pale in upper voices and muddy in the bass. These failings actually enhanced the plain chant Te Lucis, but consistently spoiled the music of later composers. Even Charpentier's lovely Magnificat almost became an insipid bore--despite the excellence of violinists John Goodkind and John Barson, and Harvard cellist Stephen McGhee. After a mediocre Schubert cantata, the visitors offered a Bacchanals from Offenbach's La Belle Helene. At its close...
...mathematics class was over, and the haggard, pale instructor gathered up his papers. One of the boys approached him and asked for the foreign stamp on a letter that lay on the desk. As the teacher started to oblige, the boy had an afterthought: "Please, would you give me the whole envelope with your name on it? It will be worth lots of money some day." Even in children's minds, Henri Dubois, 37, mathematics teacher at the Technical College for Boys in the French city of Albi, is a famous man. All through the French Pyrenees his name...
With exclusiveness, there is some snobbishness. The Association regards driftwood gatherers and mobile manufacturers as philistines, beyond the pale of true artistic production. The essence of the true art is its non-objectivity, in the intimacy between man and kobu. "In a kobu," comments the president," every man sees what he wants or needs to see. With us, there is no restricting canon of 'proper' taste or judgment...