Word: paleness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pleasant Italian morning, with pale sunlight shimmering through a thin mist. Poppies bloomed in the wheat, crickets chirped in the weeds and skylarks sang overhead...
...white hair and beard have thinned; the furrows of nigh 74 years line the veld-weathered face that Frans Hals might have painted. But the pale blue eyes are tirelessly alert. The thinning figure, rather gaunt now, slippered and with a trace of a stoop, moves briskly...
...pale and weedy Cambridge student then: a Boer-accented colonial, fresh from the schools of the Cape Colony, a grave and talented adolescent with a passion for reciting Prometheus Unbound, an enthusiasm for the Empire-building of Cecil Rhodes. From Cambridge he went back to the South Africa of diamond fields and booming gold mines, of growing friction between British and Boers, who had trekked northward from the Cape to the Transvaal to free their rude, patriarchal, Bible-reading lives of uitlander (foreign) rule...
...Norton-Taylor got home to give a finis to his book which every fighter wants as a finis to his war: "... the bus was jammed with a weekend crowd going down to Rehoboth and Ocean City. There had been a long drought and the cedars along the highway were pale with dust blown from the cornfields of Talbot County, Wye Mills, Longwood. It was nighttime and our headlights laid a path along the narrow road which wound around the woods and farms. Easton-Harrison Street. Peg and the girls were standing on the sidewalk in the dim light which fell...
...eleven Brett Stokowskis are luminous, elongated impressions in which Conductor Stokowski seems to be swooning under water. In Leopold Stokowski Conducting Parsifal there is only a Stokowski-like manifestation, a sickle moon, blank planes of periwinkle blue, and a cometlike effulgence. In Liebestod No. 2 (Love Death), a pale Stokowski wears a rose-colored nimbus which also haloes his cupped, coaxing hands...