Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Apparently Khrushchev & Co. hoped to get some windfall out of parading Burgess and Maclean at this moment, hoping either to smooth the way for Khrushchev's forthcoming trip to London, or to muddy up the recent Anglo-American accord. Foreign Office officials have suspected Maclean's hand in the skillful phrasing of Bulganin's two recent "peace" notes to President Eisenhower. But the circumstances of the hotel interview indicated that, though they might be useful in phrasing messages, the Russians regard the two ex-diplomats as no more than propaganda puppets...
William Baziotes' Pompeii is also a sophisticated vision rather than an outpouring of feeling: he saw something like it in his mind's eye. Rumpled, testy Mark Rothko produces pictures as smooth and calm as a cup of cambric tea. His Orange Over Yellow might make a handsome background for something, but this is not what he intended, any more than the makers of the medieval tapestries meant merely to adorn palaces. It seems highly doubtful that such art as Rothko's will some day seem as meaningful as the tapestries, yet it is possible. Such paintings...
...there might be a committee of History, Literature, Fine Arts, and Philosophy representatives, which would concentrate on conflicts of courses dealing with the 19th century. Programs, such as studies in American Civilization, which are already organized, but are at present unconcerned with the scheduling of courses, might work to smooth the way within their particular fields. The faculty need not be disturbed by the threat of bureaucratic strangulation of liberal education, since these informal committees operating in a few key fields would meet only once or twice a year...
...diamond from Diamantina, the drowsy back-land town where he was born and raised. On the polished surface, no trace remains to recall the shy, shabby small-towner who at 18 took a third-class coach to the state capital to make his way in the world. Smooth, brisk and notably well-groomed, he suggests just what he used to be-a high-fee society doctor. Young for a Brazilian President, he looks even younger, with catlike grace and glowing vigor. His smile rivals French Actor Fernandel's in expanse. He loves society parties, especially if there is dancing...
...sent to Trainer Dan Florio at Stillman's Gym for advanced instruction. Today, at 21, Patterson is known as a "fellow who will leave you for dead. He is a good-looking six-footer with lean hips, long arms and broad shoulders powered by slabs of smooth muscle ... he fights with the violent gracefulness of a large cat hunting its dinner. He is a rarity-a good boxer with a knockout in either fist . . . He is hard to hit, but he has been clobbered, upstairs and down, without losing his poise or aggressiveness. He has never been knocked...