Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Solzhenitsyn resembles Tolstoy in a number of ways. Courage and the willingness to share danger with comrades, however, are among the highest virtues represented in his books-and life. Tolstoy believed that men cannot shape history. In August 1914, Solzhenitsyn steadily tries to refute this view. He believes, besides, that men are morally obliged to fight in defense of their country. Why did you do it? a girl asks a boy who has just volunteered for the army, in August 1914. Both have been influenced by the doctrine of nonresistance. "I pity Russia," he replies...
...borrowing funds, buying computers and leasing them to users. Borrowing $100,000 from his family, he launched Leasco Data Processing Equipment Corp. in 1961, within six years held stock and warrants worth more than $10 million. Though the stock has declined, Steinberg's company is in good shape. His bid to buy New York City's Chemical Bank was rebuffed in 1969, but Steinberg has branched into insurance, management consulting, and ship, barge and aircraft leasing, now runs his companies from Manhattan as chairman of the Reliance Group Inc. An active fund raiser for charities, he contributed...
...cricket, the imputation of oafishness to football was, even in Kipling's own day, a bit anachronistic. Kipling seems to have had in mind the ancient bloody kickaround of the village green with a dead dog or severed head for ball, not the modern game that started to shape itself...
...marriage to her husband was crippling, she is helpless outside it. She moves in with a pregnant friend, lives modestly, looks for work, has an intermittent affair with an engineer (Martin Luttge). She gets a series of routine jobs (sales assistant, secretary, typist, guide) and tries to give modest shape to childhood dreams of becoming a musical-comedy actress by taking singing and dancing lessons...
Birth of a World. If there is one word for the qualities of Miró's art, it is liberty, the freedom to invent, to associate image and shape at will, to sit easily in one's fantasies...