Word: starke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shop on K Street. But when they had finished, several points did stand out like stumps in a clearing. One of these was the stark evidence of the State Department documents which Chambers had had in his possession. On the basis of an FBI expert's testimony (never challenged by the defense) they had been typed on the Hisses' old Woodstock typewriter...
...these men had sailed away, in the days of the Co-Prosperity Sphere, with a similar purposeful spirit and disciplined jingoist chants. The official welcoming party-talkative bureaucrats, beaming Red Cross nurses, bustling newsmen-waited on a bare wooden dock in Maizuru harbor, with blue, cloud-flecked hills and stark rusted cranes of the former naval base as backdrop. The 2,000 lined up rigidly, listened stonily to the effusive greetings, responded with chilling precision. A close-cropped ex-army captain stepped stiffly forward. "Some of us," he barked, "have not seen home in ten years. All of us have...
...felt it was time for television to get out of the little tap-dancing acts," said Phillips Lord last week. "I thought: let's do it stark naked, the way they do in Italian films...
This fantastically bad novel is built around a single, anguished theme-Author Wylie's teeth-grinding grief that the world turns its back on his views. In Generation of Vipers, where his views made a little sense, however overstated they may have been, Wylie was impressive for his stark anger at the course of U.S. civilization. In Opus 21, he buries a few pinheads of truth so deep in bad taste and bad writing that his message, if any, is lost in the muck, and his jeremiad itself is silly...
...many parts, ranging from sheer farce to stark tragedy, drained Dickens' abounding vitality even more than his dependents drained his well-filled purse (he left nearly half a million dollars when he died). When he deliberately added to the strain by touring England and the U.S., reading and miming famous chapters of his novels, he knew that he was shortening his life. For a few years he enjoyed the actor's supreme privilege of seeing men & women rolling in the aisles or being carried out in terrified swoons. Meanwhile, at the reading desk...