Word: slenderness
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...unforgettable, even when he struck out. His swing whirled him around until his slender legs were twisted beneath him. And the times when his big bat did connect were baseball's biggest moments. The spell lasted until the Babe had trotted around the base paths, taking mincing steps on his small feet, tipping his cap to the mighty, reverent roar from the stands...
Because he is bored with his own, he calls himself by many names: "The Old Man of the Apricot Orchard," "Hut on Chieh Shan Mountain," "The Man Long Separated from the Studio of Eight Ink Stones." But in China last week any of those names, signed with slender strokes upon a painting, were immediately recognizable as belonging to Ch'ih Pai-shih, China's most popular living artist...
...lashed, the dreary assemblage awoke with screams of wounded pride. Imprecations rattled about the hall like hailstones. Angry old men glared and shook their fists at Basso, who stood slender, confident and amused behind the speaker's desk. A ruddy, portly old Socialist waddled up to the rostrum, his pince-nez and a finger wagging together. Cried he: "You are a clever fellow, Basso, and a good orator, but you have used us like doormats." Mopping his face with a silk handkerchief, Basso surveyed the old gentleman, then shrugged and turned away. The Socialist Party might be dead...
...scholars have identified about 15 of La Tour's paintings. Last week visitors, clustered in one of the galleries of the Frick, could study for themselves the special marks of his great talent-the smooth, stylized surfaces, gleaming in ghostly candlelight; the quiet faces reflecting stolid patience; a slender hand, translucent to the flame...
...again this is a touching little story; but ultimately it is wrecked by Miller's longtime habit of trying to hang too heavy a meaning on too slender a frame. The virtues of economy and precision seem to have dawned on the author too late. Henry Miller's contribution, if any, to 20th Century writing may be that he often illustrates the fatal distance between "self-expression" and the hard discipline...