Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...without difficulty in their half of the ninth. A small claque of drunken Harvard rooters, almost lost in the huge expanse of the first base grandstand, cheered lustily. But over in the dugout Billy Southworth's ghost shook its head sadly, walked through the wall, and was lost from sight...
...terms his school of painting (where he teaches students from 22 nations) the "school of vision." He scorns modern painters as "decorators for wallpaper, printed silk or men's ties" because "they do not use their eyes any more." He also unhesitatingly claims second sight. When he painted the portrait of Professor Auguste Forel, famous Swiss psychiatrist, Kokoschka made his subject look 20 years older, with his right hand drooping strangely, his right eye blind. Forel and his family protested that the portrait was a poor likeness-but four months later, just as though Psychological Portraitist Kokoschka had foreseen...
...neighboring island. His unknown foes promptly plant a six-inch venomous centipede in his bed ("Bond could feel it nuzzling at his skin. It was drinking! Drinking the beads of salt sweat!"). Bond gets to the small island, drops off to sleep only to awaken to the sight of a beautiful girl, nude but for a wide leather belt around her waist ("the belt made her nakedness extraordinarily erotic"). After his faithful native servant is scorched to death by a flamethrower Bond and the girl are ushered into the presence of the diabolical...
...empty beer can rattles through the air over their heads. Gail turns back and smiles, waving at the tottering man who threw it. Another tinkles down the walk. The red and green flag of Phi Kappa Psi looms in sight as the party enters the Wriston Quadrangle, housing the college's 17 fraternities and nine of its dormitories wedged in between them...
However, Mr. Kelley has tried very few of the sight gags that are needed to make up for the paucity of jokes in the script, and nobody in his cast can create laughs out of thin air. John Wolfson is scarcely what Gogol had in mind for the chief conniver, but his cold authority works very well instead of the greasy glibness the author intended. Mr. Wolfson knows how to command a stage, and his performance is one of the evening's best. As the other gambler, Ronald Coralian does a straight part well...