Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Basso Hines's voice was as big, dark and smooth as the best of them, and his basketball-player's height (6 ft. 6½ in.) gave him a properly commanding appear ance. His craggy makeup, with its shaggy beard and beetling brows, made him resemble the tormented Mussorgsky him self. He did not quite have the authority to dominate the role, but few expected a first try to be a great one, and the crowd yelled itself hoarse after the death scene, called Hines back for seven solo curtain calls...
...show in three years by Britain's controversial sculptor Henry Moore. In all, there were 33 bronzes, ranging from an over-life-size King and Queen to tiny, four-inch-high models. Biggest surprise of all was an apparent shift away from Moore's familiar round, cream-smooth figures with holes in their stomachs. Some of the new pieces are spiky spindles; others show a turn to classic Greek lines...
...group of Reds and fellow travelers has played on their grievances and twisted their idealism to work up a propaganda war against the U.S. and "capitalist war plans," and for "peace" and "neutrality." Japan's unruly student population, in turn, has proved to be fertile soil for the smooth-sounding "peace" campaigns of the teachers...
Medieval Essays is a handy sampler of Dawson's view of history. He writes with the smooth mixture of clarity, scholarship and happy metaphor that characterizes good British historians, and the imperturbability of a man content with a limited audience. (His 15 books have had an average U.S. sale of 3,600 copies...
...frequent linking of Harvard and Reds. A few phone calls later, the article was being reprinted at the expense of the University for just such expense of the University for just such purposes of enlightenment. The official leaned back in his chair. The going had not always been smooth with the editors over the years, he reflected. But he liked the CRIMSON...