Word: slenderness
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...Following a modern poet up a mental slope carries real danger of getting hopelessly lost above the tree line of meaning. Lucid, logical John Ransom is not that kind of poet. Much of his poetry is as transparent as a weather report. As skillful in craft as he is slender in output, he can write movingly and hauntingly about the death of a small child, as in Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter...
...Yongdung rail junction, outside Seoul, 20,000 refugees squatted in an area about 100 yards wide and half a mile long, waiting for a chance to clamber aboard freight trains. They strapped themselves to the sides of flatcars, clung to perilous footholds by slender strands of rope. On one engine, a woman wedged herself atop a steam valve to keep warm, not realizing that when the train started moving she would inevitably freeze and topple...
Standing in front of the Philadelphia Orchestra, the slender, highbrowed violinist found "my fingers cold . . . getting weaker and weaker." He was "submitting to an ordeal by fire in front of some half-hundred string players . . . come to . . . rehearsal with a decided 'show me' attitude." That December day in 1925, young Budapest-born Violinist Joseph Szigeti showed them-with the Beethoven Violin Concerto...
...Slender, brown-haired Jean, 23, had made a respectable splash in music with tours of both Europe and the U.S. In Paris last summer, father, mother & son had a preliminary skirmish with the D Minor Concerto on rented pianos. Later, with father & son off on tours, they practiced separately. Home in Princeton a month ago, they knuckled down on the three pianos in their living room...
Novelist Pollet has focused her slender story on two sisters, Sally and Marjorie Reynolds, who are at that difficult stage when adult independence beckons but family ties still bind. At 23, Sally is the sort of girl people call "delightfully feminine," though they wonder why she doesn't marry. Marjorie, 17, shows more troubling symptoms: a vague intellectual restlessness combined with a fondness for make-believe play with her six-year-old brother Paul...