Word: raptly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been fashion editor of Harper's Bazaar. But Diana was eying the procession as associate editor of Harper's rival, Vogue-having switched magazines last month. And of the lithe models doing their stylish slither down the inter-table runway, none so captured Diana's rapt attention as China Machado, 26, an exotic blend of Portugal and Siam, glorious in a cocktail-hour getup that included pants and an overskirt. China (pronounced Chee-nah) was there in two capacities: as a model, and as the newest fashion staffer on Harper's Bazaar. Said...
Standing stiff-backed on the podium, ticking off the beat with the rapt air of a man unraveling a problem in calculus, Conductor Szell drew forth music that was a wonder of elegance, discipline and response. Every detail of every number seemed illuminated; all the balances were precise. Although the Cleveland sound was handsome and full-bodied, the visiting orchestra tried for, and consistently achieved, something rare in a large orchestra-the internal clarity of a chamber group...
...blood-chilling tones, he was telling his rapt listeners what will happen to them after a Communist takeover: "They'll take a wide-bore revolver with a soft-nosed bullet and place it at the nape of your neck to blow your brain and your face into a bloody and chaotic oblivion...
Guitar atwangle, eyes aimed into a far corner, the voice pitched in a keening wail, the singer holds the rapt attention of the shaggy boys, girls and dogs scattered around his Greenwich Village pad. In a campus dormitory in Ohio, in a café alonng San Francisco's North Beach, in a living room in upper-class Grosse Pointe, Mich., other singers with guitars chant tales of tragic love. In fact, all over the U.S., people of all descriptions-young and middleaged, students, doctors, lawyers, farmers, cops-are plucking guitars and moaning folk songs, happily discovering that they...
...ritually cursing Stalin's memory was joined by frail, elderly Darya Lazurkina, who, as a fresh-eyed girl in 1902, had been a devoted pupil of Lenin. She was also one of the multitude of Reds purged by Stalin in 1937, and last week Darya told 5,000 rapt delegates that she had survived 19½ years of prison, labor camp and exile only because "I always had Lenin in my heart and asked him what to do." In the tones of a Delphic priestess, Darya continued: "Yesterday I consulted Lenin again, and he seemed to stand before...