Word: paling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Governor General Vincent Massey's book-lined study, a sternly handsome man with pale blue eyes took a solemn oath: "I swear to serve Her Majesty truly and faithfully in the place of her council in this Her Majesty's Dominion of Canada." Then John George Diefenbaker, 61, bent to kiss a Bible, intoned, "So help me, God." Thus, in a quiet ceremony, Canada's 13th Prime Minister since Confederation (1867) took office last week...
Personality & Private Life: Sternly handsome, imposing in stature, personally charming, with pale blue eyes and a face that cartoonists can catch in a few lines. Approaches tasks with fierce vigor. Wears country lawyer suits, prefers milk to martinis. After death of first wife in 1951. married attractive, capable Olive Freeman Palmer. A thunderous, fire-snorting orator, during the campaign he spoke with evangelistic fervor even when there were no more than a dozen people listening. Major interests: work, an occasional fishing trip alone, and the Baptist Church, in which he is a leading layman...
...housed the Japanese Governors-General in Japan's prewar days as ruler of Formosa. Kishi presented Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek with two embroidered silk comforter covers (a standard Japanese wedding gift), received in turn from the Gimo two grass bed mats and a decorative ship model fashioned from pale pink seashells. The old enemies got along quite well...
...sister's death showed in Sick Child (opposite), a theme Munch first sketched when he was 22, continued obsessively in lithographs and oils. Owing some of its quality to the impressionist colors he had seen in Paris, it captures what he bore indelibly in his memory: "the pale head with bright red hair against the white pillow, the trembling lips, the transparent skin, the tired eyes...
...laugh or cry, rarely the truly different. Walk along the river some warm evening.... very few people alone, thinking, worrying, wondering. Only the loving couples, a few retired professors on the benches, and a tired dog. See the species pre-media, the impersonal, mark-con-scious eyes and the pale, insipid faces. Peek into the Bick.... the white-sneaker crowd, sipping flat coffee with their flat conversation...