Word: slenderness
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...these and uncounted, uncountable others were problems last week for a slender, balding man who sat talking softly, hands clasped around updrawn knee, behind his desk in a limestone building on Washington's Constitution Avenue. He is Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr., 53, whose awesome duty it is to apply, on behalf of the U.S. Government, the constants of law to a time of explosive change...
...like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful." Thus Pablo Casals once described his cello, an instrument he played with unmatched intelligence, mastery and passion. The analogy to a love affair was apt, for Cellist Casals gave himself to his favorite music (Bach, Mozart) with the sort of evident personal dedication which, as much as his skill, won the world's reverent respect. Last week admirers by the thousands were gathering to honor him at the annual Casals Festival, this year being held in San Juan, Puerto Rico...
...Elizabeth Taylor; the forehead, "white, smooth and pure," of Kim Novak; the "cute, slightly turned-up" nose of Songstress Teresa Brewer; the "ripe, sultry and suggestive" mouth of Anita Ekberg; the "silky and soft" hair of Sophia Loren; the "firm, yet round and petite" chin of Natalie Wood; the "slender, yet strong" neck of Canada's Skater Barbara Ann Scott; the "sulky, passionate" eyebrows of Prima Donna Maria Callas; the "delicate and small" ears of New Jersey's First Lady Helen Stevenson Meyner because "they invite you to whisper your innermost secrets into them...
...baggy cotton trousers, the three barefoot Indian musicians sat down cross-legged on an Oriental carpet on the stage of Judson Memorial Hall at Manhattan's Washington Square. Glancing at the drummer to the right of him, Ravi Shankar cradled his sitar in his arms, and with slender, agile fingers began to coax from its steel strings a piercingly plaintive, twangy melody. Beside him the tabla (drum) thrummed and rataplanned a shifting, syncopated beat, and behind him a four-stringed, unfretted lute named the tamboura thinly droned its hypnotic accompaniment. Thus Sitarist Shankar, India's most widely famed...
...open the way for Bailey, assistants now passed tourniquets like cotton shoelaces around both great veins but did not yet draw them tight. Another tourniquet went around the right subclavian artery. With a needle holder like a long, slender pair of pliers, Bailey dipped his needle lightly in and out of the wall of the right auricle, drawing only a few drops of blood as he made two circular (purse-string) sutures. "Suction." An assistant dipped a glass-tipped rubber tube, attached to a vacuum pump, into the heart bed, drew out the spilled blood. With fine team coordination, Bailey...