Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Attacking modern critics who favor an ironic tone, he said that "ours is the most thin-lipped, thin blooded culture of the century. Dry irony has risen to the point where a minor writer like Laforgue is favored over Victor Hugo...
...Orest, to Elektra's shrieking "Stab her once more!" at the news that Klytaemnestra had been struck down. But the performance also was a reminder that Elektra no longer has the almost physical shock value it possessed in Strauss's time: overlaying the stark story is a thin coat ing of German Gemütlichkeit that too often turns passion to mere posturing. What redeemed the Met's Elektra was a splen did job of conducting by Joseph Rosenstock and the singing of Soprano Borkh, who rose triumphantly over the raging orchestra with rich, ringing power...
Last week all that changed in a donybrook fought, in the words of Poet Louis MacNeice, with "the soft-spoken malice, the ostentatiously throwaway display of inside information, the heavy-lidded, thin-lipped irony, the addiction to verbal arabesques, the exquisite verdigris of cynicism, that have traditionally characterized this city of sneering spires...
Although only a thin layer of ice remained on the river, Laura J. Walther '63 wandered onto the ice until she fell through 20 feet from shore. Her date dashed across the ice only to fall through himself. Earl L. Holloway '63 and James J. Combs '63 led the rescue effort by crawling on their stomachs and using a lacrosse stick...
...plant breeder still brings the buoyant spirit of religious revival to the Khrushchevian task of boosting yields. Sunburnt and dust-covered, he travels the vast land, bawls orders to the peasants in his hoarse, high-pitched voice: "Keep the weeds down." "Put on more manure." "Thin out in case of drought." Khrushchev, another peasant's son from the Ukraine, understands and appreciates that kind of talk. Lysenko tells virgin land pioneers not to plow their land in the fall but to plant their grain amidst the snow-catching stubble, advises Volga farmers to increase their crop by cutting their...