Word: supplicationes
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That was once what Baseball Fan and Author Roger Angell (The Summer Game; 1972) calls one of the "sunlit verities of the game." Not any more. Disputes between owners and players have delayed spring training twice in the past five years - precisely the troubled period recaptured in Five Seasons. This...
I wandered off. The tote board blinked The kid had brought a long shot home second. A few fans stood in the rain applauding. "Thank you, Stevie," someone called. "Thank you very much." The tone was gratitude approaching supplication.
The evidence of a single moment of holocaust lay mutely within a low-slung white hangar at Los Rodeos Airport on a 2,073-ft.-high plateau nine miles from Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the island's major city. Row after row of dark wooden coffins filled the entire floor...
By the same token, the classic-romantic pigeonholes have conspired to make us think of neoclassical art as sensually diluted. A sharp contour supposedly driveth out lust. Of course it does not, and the sensuality of a Delacroix nude seems quite uncomplicated beside the grandiose perversity of Ingres's...
Reaction in Moscow was mixed -and often heated. Some intellectuals felt that Brodsky's letter strikingly underlined the contrast between the harshness of official policy and the moderate, reasoning attitude of some Soviet writers. But many were angry. Said one dissident: "One simply doesn't write such letters...