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Levine focuses, with the rapt attention of a G.I. picking lice out of his clothes, on the seamy side of American life. Born and raised in Boston's South End slums, he knows the harsh, scrabbling lives of the poor, and he brings their hurt faces alive in his canvases. The stock characters in Levine's more preachy pictures-fat capitalists, leering politicians and sneering cops-always look like more than types; he paints them with real anger and a genius for caricature...
...March 1939, Joseph Stalin said to the rapt delegates to the 18th Congress of the Russian All Union Communist Party (of Bolsheviks): "It is now a question of a new redivision of the world, of spheres of influence and colonies, by military action." Five months later, Stalin concluded his infamous alliance with Adolf Hitler. One week after that, "military action" began...
...rapt and rambling Hepburn household, no one ever changed the subject when young Kate came into the room: she heard all there was to hear. But freedom had its limits. When his children's squabbles got beyond the control of reason, Dr. Hepburn whacked them all impartially. Kate was spanked until she was nine, when she figured out how to stop the spankings: by taking them without crying...
Ordinarily a blooming lotus merits no such rapt attention from Professor Ohga, who has been studying the genus for 30 years and is known in Japan as "Dr. Lotus." But this plant, lovingly tended by the doctor's good friend, 69-year-old Soy Saucemaker Moemon Ihara, had sprouted from a seed found in a nearby peat bog, imbedded in a neolithic canoe. Counting on 100 years to form each foot of the 15 feet of peat that covered the seed, and adding 500 years for the layer of topsoil above the peat, Dr. Lotus calculated that his seed...
...Falcon-eyed," upright and just, he stalks the pages of Asch's novel in many moods: rapt and docile before God's voice in the burning bush, prophetic and lordly as he pronounces plagues on Egypt, exalted as he receives the Ten Commandments on Mt. Sinai, toweringly wrathful as he descends after 40 days and nights to find the children of Israel cavorting idolatrously before the golden calf. Humbly indomitable in faith, he is most moving when he prays for his wayward and wandering people...