Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...complicated mazes of the white world; and Mr. Robeson's personality. His organ-like voice croons, booms in husky, mellow tones filled with all the languor and ebullience of his naive race. In the third act he appears stripped to the buff-an Apollo in black marble, a sight for any sculptor. Across the footlights prejudice turns to admiration. Black Boy, with the debased morale of the U. S. Negro, can see no beauty in his own people. Even passion withers when his sweetheart is revealed a yellow girl. But Paul Robeson, personally, shines forth unashamedly black, true...
...late Walter Hines Page, war-time Ambassador to Great Britain rejoiced in telling of a unit of American nurses who, during a sight-seeing tour in London, went to St. Paul's Cathedral...
...largely in theories, and its creators of intellectual snobs. Too often have the colleges, in turn, looked upon the business men as materialistic moneygrubbers. But with the coming of enlightened men of business as powers in the affairs of the universities, an understanding beneficial to both sides is in sight...
...very keenly feel my responsibilities in endeavoring to interpret poetry as Charles Eliot Norton conceived of it. By poetry he meant the spirit present in art, in music, and in all life; not quite out of the sight, not quite out of earshot, but unheard amid the way of the would and the grinding of our own egotisms...
...factory creek to spawn. Mr. Sharp has the faculty of reproducing backgrounds, from his native Hingham, Mass., to the swinging chain of peaks around Los Angeles. Every season is his favorite, every district full of won- der. A chapter called "The Wildness of Boston" reveals foxes and deer within sight of the city clock...