Word: posed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...store was Jack's painting of a game bird, a hunting-trophy still life with every barred feather in place, as realistic and photographic as anything modern processes have shown since. Yet Jack could whip up a portrait in an hour or two for anyone who cared to pose in his paint shop amid pails of whitewash and hand-mixed house paints. At one period he traveled over the hills of southern Vermont and New Hampshire selling spectacles to the farmers' wives, but always ready to do a portrait in short order. In a small weekly paper...
...large and important a gear-presently to be inserted into the mechanism of moviemaking, and delay is his lot in life. He is called to walk through his part-while the babble of voices goes steadily on-and is dismissed to wait some more. He is called back to pose and turn while a man with a light meter goes over him like some latter-day Holmes peering through a magnifying glass. He is cornered by a harried female in slacks, who stares at him in distaste and pats his nose with a powder puff...
...virtue of their subjugated romanticism. One must constantly look for those moments which bring to brief light that underlying level of passion and intensity in the music which is continually evinced on the surface by the texts themselves. The diversity of these texts (all late-Medieval English lyrics) pose another challenge for the listener. "Contrast is everywhere," Stravinsky has written, "Similarity is hidden . . . and is found only after the most exhaustive efforts." The "general dance" which provides the framework of the central movement of the Canata draws into its whirl the Sacred History, the Lyke-Wake Dirge, the plaints...
...submit that churchery is resurgent, and thereupon pose the question: "Is it possible that Christianity is really true, after...
...free choice in a gigantic plant rising from the basement of Widener's stacks to the star fixed on the eye-piece of an observatory telescope. Whether or not he uses these facilities is up to him, but the very fact that they exist pose problems of selection which an undergraduate in an ordinary four-year college never faces. With such opportunities the Harvard undergraduate finds interests which he never suspected existed and which in large measure help to develop him as a scholar and as an individual...