Word: revealed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cuffing for it); a mask of the sacred, snake-devouring eagle Gurula from Ceylon, its head alive with twining cobras; Haidu, Tlinglit and Salish masks from the northwest Pacific coast, representing ancestors who could appear in various shapes at will (one, a wooden wolf-head, came open to reveal a fearsome cormorant); a proud yet friendly mask of Hamtman, Javanese version of the Indian monkey...
...museum piece." And for Wilson, all the residents of Hecate County are museum pieces, the bedeviled as well as the Devils. The hero's relations with both of the women in his life, Imogene and Anna, remain on a detached level that is cold and heartless. Nowhere does he reveal any pity or sympathy, even for his closest friends. For all its brilliant condemnation of the bewildered inhabitants of twentieth century America, the book damns no one more thoroughly than it does Edmund Wilson. K.S.L...
...records represent Sheen's public sermons rather than apologetics in camera, for prospective converts,, but they strikingly reveal both his manner and his matter. The manner: lucid confidence, forceful but not bullying. There is no shying from the emotional appeal or the resonant tremolo as he intones...
When he retires this summer, Professor McIlwain will move to his 150 acre farm in Maryland, where he will busy himself with book-writing. Though reluctant to reveal his subject matter, he says, with a canny Scotch eye on the best-seller list, "Stories of personal experience on the farm, such as "The Egg and I'm seem to be selling well. 'Maybe I can write something like 'The Professor...
...week the proposals for food reduction made by the Student Council Committee for Food Relief will be presented to the student body to accept or reject. First reaction of dining hall gourmets will undoubtedly be to utter loud moans at the thought of gastronomic deprivation. Yet, actual balloting should reveal unqualified approval of a plan to help relieve untold suffering in Europe at the cost of very slight sacrifice here...