Word: puree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MOUNTAIN Is YOUNG, by Han Suy!n (51 I pp.; Putnam; $4.95), is characterized by numerous passages such as this: "And then she felt hot all over, going molten and weak, liquid fire rising under her skin, the pure excruciating gooseflesh, for he was there ... He stood in front of her and she caught the warmth of his body and the faint smell of leather and sandalwood...
...humble but he has angels to attend him. So glorious, so pure, so wonderful they are, and yet they are given to be your fellow wayfarers, charged to watch carefully over you lest you fall away from Christ, their Lord...
...musical Playboy, retitled The Heart's a Wonder, is pure Synge: the rollicking story of Christy Mahon, the peasant boy who became a hero by telling a tale of parricide. The scene is still Michael James Flaherty's peat-smoked shebeen (pub), and the rich poetic dialogue is still, as Synge said a good play must be, "as fully flavored as a nut or apple." For music the O'Farrell sisters borrowed Irish ballads. As for the lyrics, they did a remarkable job of bending Synge's own lifelike speech into rhyme...
...existed with God from the beginning." In the Beatitudes, too, many will take issue at Phillips' rendering of the "poor in spirit" as "humble-minded," "they that mourn" as "those who know what sorrow means," "the meek" as "those who claim nothing," and the "pure in heart" as "the utterly sincere...
...more than Vag could believe: not a single reaction to Lanin's music, loud boos for local leaders, pure apathy for two of the country's most popular vocalists. Vag began to feel the pressure of the crowd around him, although the people were not actually pressing physically against him since his snotty remarks during the evening had long since created a you-need-a-man's-deodorant circle around him. Turning around, he saw the seductive portals of the Alamo Bar and Grill. Slowly, as if in a trance, Vag entered, while on the platform, courageous to the last...