Word: sag
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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JOHN STEINBECK Sag Harbor...
Miss Smith proved to have a pleasing voice, though it was impossible to understand her words. Simon made every syllable perfectly clear. He was joined by soprano Ann Hollander and the two viols in an extraordinarily moving performance of the deservedly popular Ich sag ade; but why, the second time through, did they choose to end in the middle? The six instrumentalists turned in fair jobs, with the exception of Ich stund an cinem Morgen, whose rhythmic complexities, even on a second try, seemed to preclude staying together...
...that, for the first time since 1953, N.I.C.B. thought "a substantial degree of inventory rebuilding was occurring," thereby reducing one of the sources of demand that might take up part of the slack when automakers cut their buying. Even as these reports were being issued, metal prices began to sag a bit. Steel scrap, critically short a few weeks ago, fell $2 a ton, and scrap copper declined...
...Author Marquand manages a highly skillful double-switch with the reader's emotions. Early in the book, he smoothly turns the nice youngster into a glossy horror; later on he turns the horror into a rather sad character who compels sympathy. Novelist Marquand's plot may sag at points, but the caricature of his hero is fascinating, down to the last page, when wise and forbearing Sylvia tucks in her husband with a kiss and a Nembutal. Perhaps the most pathetic thing about Willis Wayde is that, in his own peculiar way, he believes in what...
...Study of a Nude (1880) "came into being like a bolt from the blue" and shattered a tradition "established through centuries." In Study, Gauguin painted Justine, his children's nurse, "sitting [naked] on her bed mending her chemise. Her shoulders droop . . . her breasts . . . sag, her belly protrudes...