Word: passionlessness
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Unfortunately, nothing else in The Lottery is as good. The other 24 pieces are brightly lacquered sketches trimmed to New Yorker specifications-deadpan, passionless portraits of cruel children, quietly miserable spinsters, clumsy middle-class drifters, city people lonely in the country. Shirley Jackson accumulates little piles of irrelevant detail, topples them over with the expected sardonic swipe. If she could break out of this mold, she might become one of the U.S.'s best short-story writers...
...Like a Bullfight." Parker, twice national champion (1944 and 1945) and runner-up last year to Jake Kramer, played his aloof, passionless way into the quarter-finals without dropping a set. Then he encountered Richard ("Pancho") Gonzales, 20, the easygoing, hard-hitting Mexican-American from Los Angeles (TIME, May 19,1947), who was only No. 17 in the national ranking...
...kind of painting, which put ideas ahead of emotions, was on the verge of obscurity for a century or more. The romantic French masters who followed him, from Courbet and Delacroix on, were apt to consider David more of a pedant than a painter-and a passionless clod to boot. They were wrong, as a huge David exhibition, the biggest showing of his work ever held, proved last week in Paris...
...question was now before a three-man Senate subcommittee, aided by two of the smartest, fastest-stepping officers going: Major General Lauris Norstad and Vice Admiral Arthur W. Radford. The first sessions were passionless, devoted to broad principles and academic details. Utah's professorial Elbert Thomas took a phrase from the preamble to the Constitution to name the unified war machine the "Department of Common Defense." The dogfighting would come when Airman Radford and Airman Norstad tangled over the disposition of the Navy's land-based air forces. Even so, the bill should be ready in six weeks...
...idiots, buffoons and a little gallery of Velazquez' early, almost photographic genre pictures done in his precourt days when Velazquez used to brag: "I would rather be the first of the vulgar painters than the second of the refined ones." In strong contrast are a number of the passionless religious paintings of which Critic Thomas Craven once said: ". . . the only worthless things he ever...