Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enormous risks in his wriitng. He likes to quote Randolph Bourne: "The trouble with American culture is that the American artist is never allowed to make any mistakes. Poets today are afraid of gambling." He adds thoughtfully, "You have to get out on the edge and thread that very thin line between the predictable and the impossible, the ordinary and the ridiculous...
Randall Darwall's set is physically and spiritually perfect. Straight birch trees, thin pillars. How Botticellian! How very Fra Angelican! All in front of an Italian blue sky, with actors in Charlotte H. Prince's costumes of slightly brash, Pre-Raphaelite color. An amygdalaceous show, Gilbert might say. A real peach...
...lavish spender in private life, Peggy Lee hoards her musical resources, parceling them out with a parsimony that makes every jot count. Her sound, never big or brassy, is growing thin at the top and breathy at the bottom. So she spends her notes in the same way that dispossessed nobility lives on a dwindling income: with frugal selectivity but stylish aplomb. As she puts on weight, it becomes a little easier-but only a little-to believe that she is 47 and a grandmother. So she tones her act down to a quieter hush, focuses her emotions...
Some of Buckley's admirers feel that he has spread himself too thin, that he has dissipated his energies in too many ephemeral enterprises. "I'm not sure what I would have done with my energies if I hadn't dissipated them," says Buckley. "Would the world have been better off if I had written more books instead of columns?" Besides, he adds, "I reproach myself more than they do when I think of all the sailing I might have done." The sum total of his activities has nevertheless left its mark. He has certainly given conservatism...
Still, while Reuther fought for more fat in the settlement-which will serve as model for his next target, either General Motors or Chrysler-his workers' fortunes have worn thin. The seven-week strike, which has prevented production of 400,000 Ford cars and trucks, has cost employees an average $1,000 per man in wages...