Word: pallid
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Bravos & Whistles. The spectators, who can shake the theater with bravos and oles, are inclined to riot when displeased; but Montalban, who keeps plenty of spirit of ammonia on hand for emergencies, says the police have been "very helpful." In their enthusiasm, the aficionados disdain such pallid Yankee conventions as waiting at the stage door for autographs. When they wanted the signature of Mexican Cowboy Singer Negrete, hundreds of them piled right up on the stage. But they are avid practitioners of the U.S. custom of whistling in approval. The piercing whistles once drove a singer to tears when Manager...
...hero of Ape and Essence, as pallid as most of Huxley's heroes, is Dr. Alfred Poole, a mother-dominated scientist with a vast intellect and a recessive sex drive. On an expedition from New Zealand (one of the few spots, in the 22nd Century, that has escaped the atomic destruction of the Third World War), Dr. Poole discovers the remnants of a decayed civilization on the west coast of North America. In once proud and loud California there vegetates a sallow, stupefied tribe of helots whose technology is not much superior to that of the pre-Columbian Indians...
...composing one of the literary masterpieces of the times: Remembrance of Things Past. Even the most fanatical Proustians will have to grant that Pleasures and Regrets, now translated into English for the first time, is a trivial book. Languid little pseudo-pastoral sketches bedecked with whipped-cream imagery, pallid reflections on life and love in the sickliest fin de siècle manner, soft-jellied tales about soft-jellied love affairs-this is the picture the reader gets of the early Proust...
Born with Control. Playing summers in the U.S. and winters in Central and South America, Satchel Paige earned $36,000 one year, and spent it in handfuls (he has a white Lincoln, a red Cadillac, a red jeep, a pallid station wagon and an arsenal of over 20 shotguns). Lately he has pitched only in three-to five-inning stints. Some of Satchel's speed is gone, but not his control ("I was born with control...
...Expiation. Henry and Annette would not have left so many letters if they had not been forced to spend half their lives apart-he, sitting in the fetid courtroom "jabbering Bengali 6 or 7 hours every day with the artful dodgers;" she, reviving her pallid children in the cool hills of Darjeeling and Mussoorie; when the children were taken to school in England both had to be separated from them. "We (excuse me dear)," wrote Henry at last, "are so old that we may not see much of our children or they of us if we wait till our retirement...