Word: pallor
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Stephen Desmonde, son of a well-off Anglican clergyman, has all the cherished stigmata of the True Artist-a "slight figure and sensitive face, dark eyes and delicate pallor," and at every crisis he coughs blood. His father is appalled when Stephen insists he Wants To Paint. "To throw away your brilliant prospects, wreck your whole career, for a mere whim," he wails. Stephen is adamant: "The only thing that mattered was this creative instinct that burned within him." He Renounces All, including the love of the neighboring squire's daughter, a girl with an "air of quiet composure...
...prosperity that carried Britain's Conservatives to high good health at the polls last May had itself taken on a disconcerting pallor by the time the Tories gathered at Bournemouth last week for their annual party conference. Though they called it a "victory" conference, the Conservatives were hardly in a mood for self-congratulation. Instead, they were anxious to hear from their leaders that some steps were being taken to curb Britain's worsening gold and dollar position and growing inflationary pressures, rising cost of living. The leaders obliged...
...governed by a , coalition. In the meantime, the govern ment would be run not by men with authority but by political zombies, powerless to make basic decisions. In the next government some of the faces would be different, but they were almost certain to wear the same ghostly pallor...
Local druggists do a booming business selling bay-fever remedies and cold pills to anyone who looks even slightly pale. And when the pallor becomes more permanent the University offers the ill student the services of its Hygiene Department. Plans are now under way for a new health center to correct inadequacies in the present program. Because the sick will have to continue using the distant facilities at Stillman Infirmary, the possibility of future sweeping changes should not rule out practical reforms that are needed...
...exception was Carmine Guarino, nicknamed "the Toad." Like Silvio, Carmine had been born to poverty, but he had found escape along another road, by burying his nose in books until his eyes dimmed and his skin grew waxen with the pallor of lamplight. Carmine's studies brought him no money, but they helped make him a schoolmaster and a politician, full of respect for the ordered and privileged past and contempt for illiterate successes such as that of Silvio...