Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President is no longer an asset. Said a top-ranking Colorado Republican last week: "The President will always have some popularity, but if I were a candidate, I wouldn't want to tie myself to his coattails." Added a Californian: "Ike hinders us today. His speech was a step in the right direction, but he could help us a great deal more. He's never seemed to care too much about patronage and things like that." Said a ranking Wisconsin Republican: "Let's face it; Ike's a hindrance to the whole show...
Religious dancing has all but died out in the Christian West-probably the last to use it regularly are the all-but-extinct Shakers. But, as shown on these pages, among the peoples of Asia dancing is still an organic and important part of religion; each step and gesture, even a finger's tilt, may be loaded with metaphysical meaning. Costumes are designed according to ancient and elaborate convention: in a classic Indian dance drama called Kathakali, the makeup alone often takes from early morning until late in the afternoon. The music accompanying dancers in the East ranges from...
...help, Symes suggested that the railroads be helped too; he recommended that the Government buy rolling stock and lease it to the railroads at a price that would enable the Government eventually to get its money back with interest. George Alpert, president of the New Haven Railroad, went a step further; suggested that eastern railroads that carry heavy loads of commuters, as "a vital public service," get a "modest" 1% of Government highway funds as subsidy. "As ugly and distasteful as the word subsidy may be," said Alpert, "I consider it a welcome alternative to a loss of service...
Last week, for the benefit of the London Daily Mail Isaac Foot indulged in some reflections on his distinguished brood. "Sir Hugh." said he, "was always considered the slightly out-of-step hearty in an intellectual menage . . . Several times when he was six or seven he went off, and we found him with the gypsies on the downs -hardly distinguishable from them." Then, adding insult to injury, father Foot remarked that "anybody can be an M.P. or governor of Cyprus" and hailed a recent book on Jonathan Swift by son Michael as "the summit of the Foot family...
Words are not enough to describe the silent beauty of this man's every step and gesture. The tilt of his head or the stoop of his shoulders, the raising of his hand or the arching of his brow, make a prose description something quite awkward if not faintly sacrilegious. Marcel Marceau is an accomplished actor, a striking artist, and a wondrous, wordless poet...