Word: resisting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Edith Sitwell, poetess of Britain's famed Sitwell clan, explained why critic-baiting was her favorite sport: "I can't resist sharpening my wits on a wooden head any more than a cat not sharpen his claws on a table...
...must resist aggressive moves on the part of the Russians," he said, "and Korea seems to be as good a place as any. But sentimentally, I wish I could admire the South Korea government. I'm afraid it's a corrupt police state...
...sculptor. The stocky, intensely religious Milanese never went to art school. A stucco worker, he turned to sculpture 20 years ago and found he could make a living teaching what he had never studied. Manzu hopes to complete his Vatican commission in four years, and that it will "resist the centuries." Says he: "I would give all my blood for this door...
...poem must resist the intelligence Almost successfully...
...same question might be asked of Stevens' poems, most of which begin to fade as soon as they are read. But though they resist the memory as well as the intelligence, their delicate, twangy music-as full of surprises as a zither-sometimes delights the ear. Few living poets can be as vivid and as vague, both at once...