Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...through. Therefore, one begins to suspect that the black cat is only literary device for effectively creating a ghostly mood to overhang the Bridges family's internal strife. I don't think that ws the original idea, but by leaving his purpose open to such speculation. Clark's otherwise sharp psychological study is dulled...
...dingy room in a dreary Athens suburb of Nea Philadelphia last week, sat an aged woman, her chin bent low over her hollow chest, her hair in untidy wisps around her wrinkled face, her sharp black eyes lost in memory. She had no need to be dressed for company, for hardly anybody drops in to pay a call on Mamma Erato these days. They are too afraid. Her only friends are the rheumatic old cobbler just down the street and the kind, ugly butcher next door. Sometimes Mamma Erato slinks out of her room to make...
...underground railroad operated by Zoltan Vas as a sideline. Meanwhile, the Hungarian government, which is negotiating the terms of a trade agreement with Israel, is using the Jews for bargaining purposes. It has declared that it will permit the Jews to emigrate, but with a sharp proviso: the property each emigrant takes with him is balanced off against bananas, lemons and other future imports to Hungary from Israel...
Island Prayer. Among the many dialects of the islands, pastors and teachers mainly use pidgin English to preach the Gospel. Even Western Christians may find their own familiar words and phrases spring to new life in pidgin's sharp-cut images. Pastor Salau demonstrated with the Lord's Prayer...
...Galerie Charpentier in Paris, in the biggest art sale held in Europe since the war. Nearly an hour before the auctioning began, every little gilt chair in the great, red-velvet-draped gallery had been occupied. Bearded boulevardiers and ladies in fox furs vied for seats with dapper, sharp-eyed dealers from, far & near...