Word: spheres
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...long enough been acquainted with your eminence in the belletristic sphere," Andre Malraux writes him in English. "Now we are overturned to un cover you as a painterly ace ..." This is Perelman at his best, inspired by the pompous, the fake and tawdry, and hell bent for leatherette...
Personal Plea. In the recent past the problem was simpler. Editors had few qualms about revealing CIA operations-like domestic spying-that were clearly illegal. But the case of the Soviet sub was different. The CIA was operating in its legitimate sphere-foreign intelligence; and the operation was still going on, Colby had personally pleaded for restraint, and there was in any disclosure a risk of severe damage to U.S.-U.S.S.R. détente. In hindsight, however, some journalists are wondering whether the CIA wanted the story out for its own reasons (see THE NATION...
...supplicants. In private they practiced a cult of austerity the essence of which lay in the tea ceremony: the rough bowl, the unpainted wooden panel, the natural stone which, in manifesting sabi (simplicity or emptiness), embodied the ideals of the samurai class by repeating, in the aesthetic sphere, the discipline and frugality of a warrior's life...
Between the unorganized chaos of intramural athletics and the well-ordered world of varsity competition exists the nebulous sphere of Harvard's club sports...
Once again Harvard received most of its scoring punch in the field events. Its most productive event was the shot put where Chris Queen heaved the iron sphere 51 feet 5 1/2 inches and Kevin McCafferty and Dan Jiggetts placed second and third...