Word: shadowings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slowly spelled into my hand the word 'd-o-l-l.' I was at once interested in this finger play ... I did not know [for several weeks] that I was spelling a word or even that words existed." For almost 50 years Annie Sullivan lived in the shadow of the golden night of Helen Keller's world. She died in 1936, mourned as one who had given her own life completely to another...
...junior year, he abandoned music as a profession. He has since picked up piano and guitar by ear. After graduating from St. John's cum laude in 1947, he decided to become an astrophysicist, partly, he now thinks, because he wanted to get out of the shadow of his father and uncle. In graduate school at Columbia he soured on astronomy, took his master's degree in higher mathematics with a thesis on An Introduction to Inversive Geometry. He still regards mathematics as "the most beautiful of all human activities," but dropped it as a career on deciding...
With the Garden band's Old Howard music spurring it on, the varsity mile relay team established its superiority over Yale beyond a shadow of a doubt in the B.A.A. Meet Saturday night. It romped in 20 yards ahead of Dartmouth, and nearly a half-lap ahead of Yale in a creditable...
...Eden was the handsome glamour boy of the prewar international scene, made himself the hero of millions when he resigned in 1938 to protest Chamberlain's policies of appeasement. He was probably the most skilled diplomatic technician of his time. When, after long years in the shadow of the great Churchill, Eden became Prime Minister in 1955, he led the Tories to an electoral victory which tripled their majority in the House. Polls showed his popularity higher than Churchill's, and all men wished him well...
Behind Small War on Murray Hill lies the faint shadow of a great war all over the world that had colored Sherwood's thinking and that gives his play, at moments, a certain pensive grace. But it has given it neither dramatic fiber nor intellectual focus. Offering well-turned prose rather than vivacious dialogue, Small War is too reflective for light comedy, yet it is not nearly stimulating enough for a comedy of ideas...