Word: slimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dilapidated sarcophagi of the three Stuart pretenders in the crypt of St. Peter's in Rome to be restored. When the time came for him to die, all men knew it. London might be a shambles, but its chief resident had come through it all with dignity and slim-waisted aplomb. At the end of his reign there were probably more supralapsarians than republicans in the country. He died, beloved within his Commonwealth of Nations and admired outside it, as a king who had turned up trumps. When he was born, 20 monarchs were ruling in Europe. When...
Since those penny-poor early days, Carleton has acquired a handful of handsome buildings and a topnotch faculty, today has an enrollment of 1,050 and is generally acknowledged to be one of the country's best private coeducational colleges. But its slim endowment of $8,500,000 places it among the respectable poor of good U.S. educational institutions. Carleton's top professors are paid meagerly, its physics and biology facilities are old and cramped, its students need dormitories, and its only stage is a makeshift affair in a 110-seat basement theater. To mend the bare spots...
...Grinning at the capers of Star Walter Slezak, reviewers found The Gazebo a slim, satisfactory minor delight. The plot has "a certain sloppiness," wrote the Herald Tribune's Walter Kerr, but otherwise the play is "delightfully contagious...
Harvard's attitude has traditionally been that "coaches ought to coach," not spend the off-season tracking down promising high school stars. Sometimes the line gets rather slim--when Alumni Schools and Scholarship Committees hold special functions for candidates and coaches, for instance. The most flagrant violations--appointments with a boy's parents, special recruiting at a high school--these have been outlawed at Harvard...
Themes & Variations. In the four slim volumes that Boris Pasternak published between 1914 and 1923 (two chief ones: My Sister Life, Themes and Variations), he developed a telegraphic style, sound effects that are almost totally lost in translation and a unique imagery that made the strange familiar and the familiar strange. Pasternak's Definition of Poetry is actually easier to understand than most of his poems...