Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...warned him, "This is one job where you can't make everybody happy." Says one reporter: "He's Mr. Snow in my book." There is an "icy piety" about him, complains another. Says a third, with grudging admiration: "He can shave the truth until it is as thin as a razor blade. Nevertheless, it is the truth...
...announce what it was. Instead, he fired off a cable which, with measured stridence, told Wilson it was his last chance to avert "the implementation and consequences" of "our decision," demanded again exactly what he had been demanding before: independence under the present constitution. But there was one thin straw of hope in the message: "We again offer you a solemn treaty to guarantee our undertaking...
...life's span an end to war. He exulted: "Its days are nearly numbered"-and died, 17 years later, of what his obituarists called heartbreak, as his fellow Americans headed into World War I and death in places like Belleau Wood. Trueblood was in the tradition of a thin but spiritually pure stream of philosophical pacifism that has run through Western society since the rise of Christianity, even though the Christian ethic generally holds to the Augustinian belief in the "just" war. But pacifism has usually found its firmest hold only within small sects, ranging from the Anabaptists...
...been, as the 112-member Moscow Philharmonic launched its first tour of the U.S. with a series of concerts in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall. Consensus: an uneven but promising orchestra of international rank. The Moscow brass and woodwinds were bright and full-throated, but the strings sounded thin and oddly colorless. Though sometimes lacking in subtlety and balance, the orchestra played with great exuberance and a kind of healthy sentimentality. The tall, imposing Kondrashin, who does not use a baton, in the belief that the face can convey more than the arms, smiled and scowled like a silent-movie...
...portrait (see color) is Copley at his finest hour. Commingled with the puritanical solidity of American realism are the extravagant fancies of Britain's "Grand Manner"-sharply outlined bulks interrupted by thin, evanescent cuffs, ruffles and fluttery papers. The painting underlines the irony of Copley's dilemma. As is documented by a current show * on the 150th anniversary of the artist's death, he was the first great American painter, but his very quest for art destroyed that vision...