Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact, something about the sight of automated soldiering seemed to provoke an irrepressible urge in passers-by to make the sentries convict themselves of being still human. Girls took to throwing their arms around the guards while chums snapped pictures to be sent home. Some sentries suffered the indignity of having toffee apples stuck on their bayonets; others found as they started off on their 25 paces that their shoelaces had been tied together. This summer has been especially galling: tourists have poked, tickled, thrown banana peels or ice-cream cups underfoot, sung out derisive marching orders, brazenly grabbed...
...social matters," he said last week, "I could today be classified as a complete man of the left. But I do not admit that to be a good republican one must deny one's national feelings." The issues that once separated right from left in France no longer seem of primary importance to Jacques Soustelle. What is of primary importance...
...Webern had not yet evolved the highly atomized style that has, for good or (probably) bad, made him the No.1 idol of the young fry among today's composers. With the exception of the moving "Kahl reckt der Baum" (to words of Stephan George), these songs did not seem worth writing down, to say nothing of committing to memory...
...person's punctuation is as good a quick clue to the clarity and logic of his thinking as any I know. Nevertheless, hordes of people seem never to have heard of the semi-colon. one of the most valuable resources in the whole punctuational arsenal; and others, especially in epistolary usage, seem never to have heard of anything but the dash--unless it be the triple exclamation point! And even such a splendid and important novel as Joyce Cary's The Horse's Mouth is marred by horrible punctuation, particularly the author's evidently insatiable passion for the period...
Conquest (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). After a season full of soaring space shots, Air Force Major David Simons' record-breaking 1957 balloon ascent (20 miles up) may seem minor stuff. But even in a rerun, it is an exciting adventure...