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...first 13 days of its second run in Manhattan's federal court, the perjury trial of Alger Hiss had progressed with a singular absence of melodrama. Whittaker Chambers spent seven days as a witness, much of the time under crossexamination, stepped down with both his testimony and his Buddha-like calm intact. His shocking tale was corroborated as before by his wife and a long list of Government witnesses. Voices were seldom raised; time and repetition had lent a curious matter-of-factness to an incredible affair...
Adriana is the ripe, first-person singular heroine of The Woman of Rome, a long, languorous novel by Italy's most trumpeted living writer, Alberto Moravia. U.S. readers may well ask what all the critical tizzy is about. In The Woman of Rome, Moravia has blended poverty and lust with considerable technical skill, but, given Adriana's temperament, his bid for deeper meanings, e.g., human helplessness caught in life's iron grip, was doomed from the start...
...surprise the opposition, coach Ben McCabe will start off using a straight T formation and will probably stick with this attack for the entire first period. Princeton used it with singular success against the Blue...
...Testament prophets were dynamic-appearing individuals. Their singular countenances, beaming with inspiration and light, inspired awe and love in all who were blessed to see them. Michelangelo's Moses is a good example of what one might expect a prophet of Israel to look like...
...Trollope came prepared to appraise and evaluate the Union: it never occurred to her that from the moment she landed (at New Orleans) she herself would be the one to be roundly devaluated. To begin with, it was a "singular" shock to find that though every man jack of her American fellow travelers on the Mississippi chewed tobacco, reeked of whisky, ate with a knife and grabbed for the table "viands" with "voracious rapidity," one & all had apparently "arrived at high rank in the army...