Word: retouch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hunt only in still weather, and so shy they have never been seen.) For the haloed, mouthless figures painted in caves in the Kimberley district, they have a different explanation: Wondjina (gentle fertility gods) first made them by casting shadows on the rock. Before each rainy season, the aborigines retouch the divine shadows with red and yellow ocher and pipe-clay white. It is sure to bring rain...
...last the utility has issued a report to the stockholders. Bing, besought by the Satevepost, has dictated his memoirs to Writer Pete Martin, and they have been published under a title, Call Me Lucky, calculated to retouch the custom-made halo of modesty around one of the shrewdest heads in show business. Already published in excerpt by the Post, Call Me Lucky is now off on a climb into bestseller lists...
Like most legends, Burns's is fact-resistant, but responsible scholars try to retouch it occasionally. Cornell University's David Daiches (rhymes with gracious) is the latest to try, and does one of the best jobs. Critic Daiches (Virginia Woolf, Robert Louis Stevenson) scans the poet's lines more closely than his life. Even so, he manages to clear away enough romantic rubble to expose a Burns who could say: "Even in the hour of social mirth, my gaiety is the madness of an intoxicated criminal under the hands of the executioner." Burns came by his melancholy...