Word: slenderness
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What geologists call an erosion basin, the Turks call the Valley of the Fairy Kingdom. Along its broad, dusty floor, the roseate hues of the Arizona desert blend into the yellows of Cape Cod dunes. Great shafts of rock are everywhere--cones, needles, slender ridges, pyramids, columns. Some of the cones are capped by tremendous boulders perched so delicately it seems one shake would topple them...
...seemed that Novelist Muriel Spark had talent to burn. Then, in the late 1960s, a suspicion arose that burning was exactly what she had done with it. Gone was the somber exuberance of such earlier triumphs as Memento Mori, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Girls of Slender Means. The froth turned sour and her amused awareness of human daffiness was drowned in simple venom. The Abbess of Crewe (1974), Spark's deft parody of Watergate set in an English convent, gave reason to hope that all was not lost. The Takeover proves that nothing has been lost...
...truly moved by his book. I have longed to be with and to get to know him. I am admittedly hurt by his nonresponse. Perhaps someday I'll write a book about my relationship with my father, but I am afraid it will be even more slender than A Personal Memoir's 119 pages...
Philippe Levasseur was the good one. He was 25, quiet, slender, clean-cut, a steady worker. Until about six months ago, he lived at home with his parents, farm workers in the Normandy village of Londinières. Then he went to the nearby port of Dieppe and got a job working in the oyster beds...
...Thomson of Fleet, 82, international press czar; a month after suffering a stroke; in London. A debt-plagued salesman in rural Ontario during the Depression, Roy Herbert Thomson floated a loan to set up a small radio station, then acquired a struggling newspaper, the Timmins (Ont.) Press. From this slender base he built one of the world's largest press and broadcasting empires: more than 140 newspapers and dozens of magazines, TV and radio stations, mostly in Canada, the U.S. and Britain. In London, which became his base of operations in the 1950s, he picked up a powerful group...