Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While in Shushenskoe, Lenin married a fellow exile, Nadezhda Krupskaya, a thin, hot-eyed girl with carroty hair and many of the strong-minded qualities of the young women in the pages of Chekhov and Turgenev. The honeymooners spent their time translating The Theory and Practice of Trade Unionism, by the British Socialist sages Sidney and Beatrice Webb. Of necessity, every revolutionary needed a pen name, and Vladimir chose his: Lenin, presumably from the Lena River, the longest and one of the coldest in Siberia...
...voice sounded paper thin, raising every head in India's Parliament. "May I speak sitting, sir?" asked Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of Mr. Speaker. Still feeble as a result of last January's stroke, Nehru slumped in his seat, delivered a 40-minute address, his first major talk since the illness. With refreshing candor, he took his countrymen to task for consistently blaming India's problems on others. "Our publicity abroad suffers very much from self-righteousness," he said. "We are not free from wrongdoing. The result is that even many of the truthful things...
...only for tactical reasons, Smith seemed unlikely to declare independence from Britain immediately. His party holds a wafer-thin, five-seat majority in the 65-man Parliament, and he probably will not get parliamentary support for such a move. Moreover, the British now pay preferential prices for Southern Rhodesia's staple crop of tobacco; thus, independence might be costly. Hendrik Verwoerd's government in South Africa sympathizes with Smith's policies, but Verwoerd has no desire to take on Southern Rhodesia's economic and military problems in addition...
Frit is made from paper-thin sheets of glass that are broken up by vibration, then placed in spinning drums filled with balls, where the glass is pulverized into powder. The use of frit-the name is unaccountably derived from the French frit, or fried-is an ancient art. The Egyptians excelled in making jewelry ornamented with frit, and the British Museum owns a fritted warrior's shield more than 1,000 years old. Now that the art has become a thriving modern industry, there are plenty of frit makers. Ferro has managed to outsell all of them...
Faith or Folly? Offered with much advance fanfare after three intervening novels (widely praised but not very widely read), The Spire is clearly intended as a crowning work. Like Golding's other books, it is less a novel than a kind of fable in which a thin skin of realism is stretched to meet a rigid allegorical frame. Sometimes brilliant, sometimes tedious, it does not fully confirm the remarkably high reputation Golding now enjoys. But it proves that he has made himself the relentless modern master of two ancient and provocative themes-the loss of paradise and the sinfulness...