Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paperwork of mass communications. There are doodles drawn from Erasmus' notebooks, titles that refer to obscure Marxist-Leninist deviationists. In one corner of his An Early Europe is pasted the source photograph of neoclassical nudes that inspired the painting's composition. He will borrow an economist's catch phrase, The Production of Waste, to title a 1963 oil showing a trio of allegorical figures chopped up like news photos of poverty, stupidity and avarice. "My pictures are a compendium of disparate imagery," he says, "mixing sweet subjects with sour ones...
...always, De Gaulle had spent several days preparing, honing and memorizing exactly what he wanted to say, but as always, he went through the formality of receiving questions from the floor, registering his comprehension of each with a grave nod or a murmured phrase ("très bieri"). When an editor asked him about his health...
...rising clergyman can win a reputation for wisdom in his sermons by using such phrases as "Christ-centered" and "faith of our fathers." Another favorite phrase is "holiness unto the Lord. No one has a clue to what this means, but it is one of the most soul-satisfying phrases in the lexicon." References to sin and sinners are always welcome, for they conjure up "images of orgies and black lingerie." Nothing makes the congregation feel so good as singing hymns like C. Austin Miles's In the Garden, which mentions the first personal pronoun 27 times...
...brochure on Yale: the roster, statistics, play diagrams, defense diagrams, and on and on. Bob Gongola, the offensive backfield coach, had scouted them. Gongola, tall, blond, and muscular, with a flat-top haircut, stands out by inches when the coaches pose for pictures. He is, in his own immortal phrase, "a big stud...
...marriage of classical mood and modern idiom at the heart of his work has not proved easy for Gregory: his lifetime output numbers fewer than 100 poems, none of them long. But at its best, the combination demonstrates consuming intelligence and sinewy strength. In his own phrase, his art can be "fire that flames upon an iron tree," and his poems are often