Word: stares
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leaders have long preached and practiced sacrifice in the name of their country and their ideas, they have always striven to keep before the people some great symbol, beautiful and useful, so that any shawl-swathed peasant woman, any unshaven, fur-clad Siberian trapper could come to Moscow, stare openmouthed in admiration, and then return and tell her village, his people: "This is what we are building for everyone...
...When Dali was very young his mother continually asked him: "Sweetheart, what do you wish? Sweetheart, what do you want?" Among the things young Salvador wanted and got were a king's ermine cape, a gold scepter and a crown. Dressed in these, young Dali would stare at himself in the mirror. Says he: "Then I pushed my sexual parts back out of sight . . . so as to look as much as possible like a girl." At school Salvador was the only child to be brought "hot milk and cocoa . . . in a magnificent thermos bottle wrapped in a cloth embroidered...
...Military police on duty at a Washington, D.C. jitterbug dance hall last week were so shocked they could only stare. Before their regimented eyes swaggered an enlisted soldier in a $150 zoot uniform. The tunic shaped in from broad, padded shoulders. The form-fitting coat flopped well below the hands that hung from leg-of-mutton sleeves. A white belt held the trousers chest-high over a cocoa-colored shirt and white tie. Above the ankles were ten-inch hemstitched stuff cuffs. A zoot watch chain swung low from the right pants pocket...
When Soprano Lotte Lehmann, hired for a selected group of Schubert Lieder, complained that the management had refused to sell extra seats on the stage, and that she felt lonely without a stageful of her devoted admirers, Impresario Monath fixed her with a steely stare. "Mme. Lehmann," said she coldly, "you are not alone on the stage. Franz Schubert is with...
This is the fourth book* that gives the customers reason to stare hard at Wallace Stevens, famed poetical solipsist who wears the world in his hat. For many years this startling person has spent his normal working hours disguised as a lawyer-employe of Hartford Accident and Indemnity Co., of which he is vice president. Betweenwhiles Stevens, now aged 63, has kept adding to the bulk and scope of his poetical testament...