Word: shuddered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glass colors move and shimmer delightfully, seeming to change with the mood of the observer. Like all first-rate artists, Afro knows exactly what he is about. "Can the rigorously formal organism of a painting," he asks, "contain the lightness, the living breath of an evocation, the leap or shudder of memory? This, for me, is the problem...
...assimilate multitudinous facts in unfamiliar fields of history and meanwhile to make sure that he always kept one jump ahead of his students. Indeed, during the last war Karpovich took over the whole direction of History 1, and he still recalls the experience with an intellectual shudder. An incredibly broad survey that covered all history from the fall of Rome to the present, the course required a tremendous amount of factual knowledge from its lecturer and moved at a prodigious rate of speed. "Students used to say that if you looked out the window you could miss the French Revolution...
...Deputies. And he is well aware that essentially his job is raising Uruguay's production. In his inaugural address he said: "We shall work, and we shall make the country work." He still hoped to "march down the roads of the left that in other lands make men shudder, but in ours merely constitute steps on the way to progress." The speech brought hearty cheers...
...often gives the clothes from his back, the food from his plate and money from his flat purse to the poor (TIME, June 7). A Christian Democrat, he broke the Reds' grip on the Florence city administration four years ago. Some of his fellow Christian Democrats, however, shudder at where his charitable philosophy sometimes takes...
...have to be me?" And the picture gives Michener's answer: People back home "act the way they do because they're there. You . . . go on doing your job because you're here. It's just as simple as that." This, though Paramount may shudder to hear it said, is an existentialist answer, and surely a poor one to die on-though just as surely many a man has had to die on it for want of a better reason in his heart...