Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Living Legend. Picasso comes down - stocky, spry, bronzed as a piece of sculpture. At 75 he is a living legend and he knows it; his dark brown eyes gleam as they sweep the room in a commanding glance. He picks up a black Spanish cape from a pile of clothes, flings it around his shoulders with the lordly grace of a matador, tops it off with a Spanish hat from the pile. " Magnifique , this material," he cries. "It is not only elegant, but it keeps you warm." Next thing the visitor knows, Picasso is romping on the lawn with...
...about them is that the cards never seem stacked on one side or the other. His Philistine realizes that a magic has gone out of his life, that "things were different now. The winged seeds that gyrate down from the trees now mean nothing else but that we must sweep them from the automobile hood because stains on the finish lower the trade-in value." And his bohemian is intelligent enough to recognize and be shamed by his own posing. At the peak of his talkativeness and charm, he "commences to doubt the impression he is making...
...masters of the mineral-rich Congo have tried to avoid politics altogether, keeping the vote from black and white alike and striving to give each an equal opportunity to enjoy the highest standard of living in Middle Africa. It has worked well. France's policy, in the great sweep of its Middle Africa territories, Equatorial Africa and the Western Sudan, has been that of education and assimilation-the idealistic if not always practicable notion that once Africans think of themselves as Frenchmen, everything will be all right. In Mozambique and Angola, Portugal, the poorest and least progressive...
Silver Flood. She returned to Manhattan on a flood of silver that seemed potent enough to sweep everything before it. But high society stood firm. At a devastating party the women closed ranks and turned on Louise the glacial stare that the elite reserves for the brash newcomer. Sniffed one dowager: ''Mackay? Oh, Irish, of course. They don't even pronounce it properly" (i.e., Mackey instead of Mckye...
Although unable to bend his heavily-bandaged knee, Cairns attempted to run the 880, and actually led for the first 350 yards, at which point he was forced to drop out. With an incipient Yale sweep threatened, French Anderson forced his way into third place with a dogged sprint which almost carried him past Yale's Ed Hedeen, who placed second. Yale's Slowik...