Word: skin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Divided Impression. The fate of the prisoners, and Nikita Khrushchev's thin skin on the subject, seemed to be the most lasting impression of the trip. In the London Star Labor's Elder Statesman Clement Attlee recorded his personal impressions of B. and K. Bulganin he had found "suave, restrained, and very easy to converse with. He gave an impression of reserved strength," but Khrushchev "struck me as a man who was not really very sure of himself, and therefore tried to give the impression of being a strong, rough man." Both Tito and China...
...skin of man is a remarkably telltale organ," noted Western Reserve University's Psychiatrist Brian Bird. "Age, sex, race, occupation, recreation, hobbies, economic status . . . can often be read directly from the skin. But it also reveals emotions. Many people use their skin as the principal organ of expression." Well-known examples are blanching and blushing, chills and sweats, but another emotional outlet can be eczema. "In my experience with eczema," said Dr. Bird, "the most prominent hidden impulse is anger, but eczema patients peculiarly are unable to become angry openly...
...chill of the British crowds had begun to get under the skin of the burly Khrushchev, and he was obviously feeling edgy. So, for different reasons, was George Brown, a tough, belligerent trade unionist who is slated to become a minister if Labor gets back into office...
...heart of his, he could hardly last more than two years, but he was still young enough to have a little fun before the finish. Fun costs money. Well, the girl would have money, bales of it, as soon as the estate was settled. He looked her over. "Hair skinned back, big nose. Skin color like a mushroom . . . nothing clothes." He thought: "What have I got to lose? I'm an accessory to innocence . . . This is my chance. I'm taking it." He turned to the girl. "I'm going to write out a death certificate...
...Beckett, who was once a sort of secretary to James Joyce, is one more of those writings that pose philosophic question marks with the emphasis of exclamation points. Like Henry James's The Turn of the Screw, Kafka's The Castle and Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth, Waiting for Godot makes who's who-and sometimes what's what-a kind of guessing game...