Word: tendering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suppressed girls whom Turgenev paints are universal types, recognizable in any environment. And some of his best stories have nothing to do with serfdom: The Singers, a rousing account of a singing duel between a peasant and a tradesman which ends in a drunken debauch, and Bezhin Meadow, a tender portrait of a group of boys whom the sportsman meets one evening...
...Alessandro Serenelli tried to rape her, she resisted him, even though he stabbed her to death. As she lay dying, Maria forgave Serenelli and promised to pray for him in heaven. Serenelli served 27 penitent years in prison for his crime and is now a handyman and pig-tender at a Capuchin monastery. There last week he spent the day of Maria's canonization "in prayer more intense than ever...
...Large Elderly Men." This new selection of Jane's letters not only sketches such tender, mocking pen portraits of husband Carlyle. Through Jane's matchless eyes, latter-day readers can also watch such scenes as Dickens marvelously playing the role of conjurer at a children's party, or Tennyson taking Jane's hand and "forgetting to let it go again," while murmuring in the trancelike voice of a lotus-eater: "I know that I know you, but I cannot tell your name...
...Worker. The article also paid touching tribute to Rumania's Red Ana Pauker as "a mature, motherly woman with greying hair set in a youthful bob. She has the finest and-most luminous brown eyes . . ." By way of illustration, the Worker ran a drawing of Comrade Pauker looking tender, handsome and soulful. That picture of Ana Pauker came about as close to what she really looks like as the Worker's account of a free, sunny Rumania came to picturing the country's real condition...
...Untermeyer once described her as "a shrewd attorney of dominating personality, whose tender emotions never ran away with her abiding sense of double-entry bookkeeping...