Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mother, and guarded by a Maltese cat. My heart hurt. Could this wreck, this ruin, this witch be the "outrageously beautiful" Maud Gonne? The woman Yeats had called "a classical impersonation of the spring, with complexion luminous as apple blossoms through which the light falls"? The mouth had sunk. The chin approached the nose. How heart-wrenching the mutations of time . . . But as she talked, I felt the upsurge of a vibrant personality. She lived; I could believe in her beauty...
...sustain her powerful acting. Landfall (Associated British Picture Corp.; Stratford Pictures), based on Nevil Shute's 1940 novel, is done in the typically tightlipped, understated style of the best British movies. It tells oi a World War II Royal Air Force lieutenant who is mistakenly believed to have sunk a British submarine instead of a Nazi U-boat, and of how he is ultimately cleared of the charge...
...salons and everything else." The vulgar folk, Leigh reasons, thought everything that was different was good, and they slowly imposed their love of novelty and disdain for nature-painting on the whole world of art. Some of today's artists, huffs Painter Leigh, bristling his snowy mustache, have sunk to "vicious imbecility...
...world's way out of Gnostic confusion depends largely on the U.S." If that is true, the world is sunk. Because there is, and/or are, more Gnostic influences running riot through every stage of American life than ever existed in any other country or civilization...
...Sunk in Gloom. The French party, once the most threatening in the West, has become disorganized during the long absence of Maurice Thorez (who was so ill in Moscow last week that he could not appear for Stalin's funeral), and divided over the recent purges of two of its stalwarts, André Marty and Charles Tillon. In Paris, Acting Boss Jacques Duclos put on a black hat and black overcoat when he got the word of Stalin's death, and led France's straggly delegation to Moscow for the funeral. Somehow, as he climbed into...