Word: rumpledness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A small Jordanian plane rolled to a stop on the tarmac of Nicosia airfield on Britain's island of Cyprus, and from it wearily stepped a small, stooped, grey man in a rumpled brown pin-stripe suit. The man in mufti, scarcely able to hold back his tears, was...
Dorothy Day, a woman of tranquil faith and fierce independence, approached the problem in her usual direct manner. She got up one morning last week, prayed for help to St. Joseph, patron saint of workers, then walked out of the House of Hospitality to persuade the judge to set aside...
William Baziotes' Pompeii is also a sophisticated vision rather than an outpouring of feeling: he saw something like it in his mind's eye. Rumpled, testy Mark Rothko produces pictures as smooth and calm as a cup of cambric tea. His Orange Over Yellow might make a handsome...
Red Curtice loses some of the friendly crinkles around his eyes when he settles down between his two desks to run the corporation from the 14th floor of Detroit's General Motors Building. As he scans the reports from G.M.'s earth-girdling ventures in autos, Frigidaires, diesel...
Director Alfred Hitchcock, 56, has made some fine movies (The Lady Vanishes, Rear Window) and has managed to appear-fat and fleetingly-in at least one scene of nearly all of them. It remained for television to show that he is almost as good an actor as he is a...