Word: rapt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...handsome young King of Cambodia himself sat rapt in the audience, 16-year-old Monique carried away all honors in a beauty contest sponsored by UNESCO. For his young (29) majesty, Samdach Preah Upayuva-reach Norodom Sihanouk, it was a plain case of love at first sight, despite the fact that he was already bulwarked against loneliness by four concubines and ten children. He promptly invited Monique for a spin in his cream-colored Lancia and composed a song for her. Monique responded by quitting school, to the scandalized horror of the French set. As far as they were concerned...
Ovation in the Ears. Everywhere Premier Bulganin and Communist Party Boss Khrushchev turned, they found their path carpeted, their coming heralded, their audience assembled and coached, their selling task made easier by the energetic, almost rapt ministrations of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and his government. Although Indian law bars foreigners from addressing a session of the Parliament, Nehru provided one next best thing, an informal joint sitting of both houses...
...actors are obviously to blame, yet they are only partly responsible; they have played as directed. Charles Boyer is a general who better resembles a priest. His deliberateness makes him dispirited in a part which calls for shrewdness. Seeing his wife off on a train, his rapt expression conveys no idea of what he is thinking. Vittorio De Sica as the Countess' admirer, misses the irony of his position. Only the Countess, Danielle Darricux, seems to have understood her role, but even she fails to exploit it fully...
LIBERATION. In Paris last week, John Foster Dulles brought the NATO Council meeting to rapt attention with the statement that the West must never accept the continued enslavement of captive peoples living under Communist rule, and must insist on discussing liberation at the Big Four conference. Dulles has by no means abandoned his liberation policy, although he stressed that he did not think that the West should attempt liberation by armed force from outside. The Austrian treaty,* in a very real sense, liberated an area of Europe. This example might have a profound effect in making Austria's satellite...
Artist Malskat was delighted when he heard visiting experts point to "the magic eye of yonder prophet," refrained from pointing out: "Yonder prophet was my father, a Königsberg secondhand clothing dealer." Malskat watched visitors gaze in rapt concentration at "the peaceful lines in the face of the old Gothic King," unaware that they were actually looking at Malskat's portrait of Rasputin. "I learned a lot of things about my art," Malskat told the court. A student, basing her doctor's thesis on the murals, wrote: "The splendid figure of Mary bears the brush marks...