Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feeling of restrained emotion pervades each paragraph; the prose is unpoetical in any obvious sense--you can't scan it--but is yet extremely rich, especially in its combinations of sight and touch. Tension mounts to find release in some sensation such as the feel of soft fabric after a description of a memory exercise...
Also especially worthy of mention is Thomas Whitbread's "The Noble Reader and the Sight of Words." Actually more a prose poem than anything else, it describes the distraction which the image of words on a page can offer in an attempt to find their sense. Lightly philosophic, it is easy to read, despite the myriad images...
...late summer of 1955 Britain called a conference with the aim of improving, in some fashion, this rapidly worsening situation. She invited Greece and herself--and, most important, Turkey. Turkey, one could say, has a legitimate interest in Cyprus, since the island lies within sight of her southeastern shore and since one-fifth of the Cypriot populace is Turkish; but the government in Ankara had, to this point, been quite nonchalant about the whole affair. Confronting Greece with Turkey was like waving a red flag in front of a bull. In no time at all the struggle for Cyprus...
...slander-mouthed railer, a malicious, nasty, monstrously selfish barbarian, and a bit of a paranoiac as well. His creator views him with a bracingly cool eye, never veiling him in a romantic haze, never losing his objectivity, explaining but not excusing. Since the author never loses sight of the fact that his hero is a "bloody bastard," the audience can hate Jimmy Porter without being annoyed at the author or the play...
...Plympton-Mill corner a newly-built garage has cut off the previous sight line and has made the intersection a blind corner. Winter weather may make the current near-misses into fatal crashes and Plympton Street into a death...