Word: stooping
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...scholar's stoop and his thick, dark-rimmed glasses planted far down on his nose. His conservative suits are usually rumpled and flecked with tobacco from the pipe that seldom is out of his mouth. Barth is a Calvinist, but not a gloomy one; at home he speaks kindly to large dogs and small children (in guttural Swiss-German), displays a mellow, Dutch-uncle patience with puzzled students. In conversation Barth is full of wisecracks-some pleasantly pixy, some theologian-arch. Once, asked by a stranger on the trolley car if he knew the great Karl Barth, he replied...
...these the precepts are, my friends, The aging Wilson recommends: Beware of dogmas backed by faith; Steer clear of conflicts to the death; Keep going; never stoop, sit tight; Read something luminous at night. Such are the pearls of wisdom and poetry of the mature Wilson. The man and his voice are obviously cultured. So, alas, are the pearls...
...shriek of children scooting in the streets, the clamor of crowded living; the neighborhood butcher's, where the housewife can leave her door key, and the corner delicatessen that stays open past midnight; the locksmith and the cobbler, and the florist's potted sidewalk garden; the front-stoop squads with time and chitchat on their hands; the old man gazing like a mute portrait from the frame of his second-story window; and the strangely silent Sunday morning, sweet with the smell of freshly washed streets...
...rank of contemporary composition, and ideologically pure, "democratic" works that stand almost nowhere at all. Ever since 1948, when he was chastised by the Central Committee of the Communist party for "decadence," Shostakovich's ideology has been improving and his music generally getting worse. Last week, disheveled and stoop-shouldered at 55, he made his way to the stage of the Moscow Conservatory to acknowledge the applause for his Twelfth Symphony, a numerical milestone that few composers, living or dead, have approached.* Unhappily, ideology once again seemed to have triumphed over ideas...
...there is a pen for three raccoons that hide in a log. The children can also poke around in a good-sized Noah's Ark, where the rabbits sleep at night, a candy-striped Hansel and Gretel gingerbread house (no witch), a turreted castle with winding stairs (and "Stoop" signs for the adults), and a walk-in birdcage. In Mouseville, built to resemble a big cheese, they can study scurrying white mice, and in the Hurdy-Gurdy House, a monkey swings to music. Best of all. they can slide down a "rabbit hole" just like Alice, and walk into...