Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...women I know are growing old." But Manning reports one conversation that sheds somber light on Hemingway's writing as well as on his eventual suicide. Brooding over his high blood pressure and spreading paunch, Papa doubts that a writer can function unless he is in top physical shape. "Fattening of the body can lead to fattening of the mind. I would be tempted to say it can lead to fattening of the soul, but I don't know anything about the soul...
...have made an experiment," wrote a French infantry sergeant from the trenches of World War I. "Two days ago I pinched from an enemy a Mauser rifle. Its unwieldy shape swamped me with a powerful image of brutality. I broke the butt off, and with my knife I carved a gentler order of feeling, a mother and child." A few days later, on the afternoon of June 5, 1915, an other German weapon put a bullet through the Frenchman's head. Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, not yet 24, was dead...
Lots of Class. Lately, the firm has branched into sportswear as well as lingerie, but bras and girdles are still the foundation of its business. In keeping with the shape and mood of the times, Triumph calls its sportswear by such names as "Caprice" and "Swing-times," and its lingerie "Jolly," "Amourette" and "Poesie." Braun applauds Rudi Gernreich as a pacemaker, but has yet to try the topless approach...
Paul Revere hooked a wooden codfish above his coppersmith shop. In early Boston, children crowded around on Saturdays in hopes that the gilded Indian gleaming on the Province House cupola would, as superstition had it, shoot his arrow at high noon. In Pennsylvania, a weather vane in the shape of an Indian was meant as an offer of friendship-and hence protection from rampaging redskins. Soon every back-porch whittler and crackerjack craftsman was getting into the act. Weather vanes popped up in the shapes of Uncle Sam, butterflies, locomotives, Gabriel tooting on a trumpet, a haggard country doctor astraddle...
Vocally, Miss Dee's lack of Shakespearean experience is evident. Final phrases often fade into inaudibility, and she tends to drop final consonants in words like "mind" and "thousand." Her long concluding speech, wherein, tamed at last, she talks of wifely duty, comes out choppy, lacking shape and flow...