Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Then came the thin, pale, intensely lyrical paintings of the early '80s, which spin away the congestion altogether, and for a few years recapitulate the graphic intensity of his work in the 1940s, but in terms of an almost Chinese delicacy, in the colors of famille-rose porcelain. Looking at them is like seeing an old man's veins through his skin: the abiding network of the style is set forth, but in its last physical form...
...beyond the thin veil of social science, there looms an ominous moral predicament. Harvard students are no longer leaders, but followers. At the time we graduate, we do not have the will to confront a tired and hardened world with our youthful vigor. We are non-confrontationalists, consensus builders. We want nothing more than to please the men and women who currently wield the real-world's power, whether they go by the name boss or parent. In short, there is a general spirit of conformist malaise about Cambridge these days...
Although officials have usually gone home hoursbefore parties start, many students don't want totake any chances. "The floors are a little thin,"Cerny says. "I could just see someone calling usand telling us to be quiet...
...speaks in tones as courtly as those of the English Baroque composer whose anthems he had clamped to his ears. At 75, wire-thin, white-haired and dressed in his working uniform of gray suit, white shirt and red tie, he more than ever fits Russell Baker's description of him as "the wise Episcopal bishop." Raised in a distinguished Old South family fallen on hard times, Kempton might be describing himself when he writes of the civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph: "His only vanity is his manners...
...theme of the record "is kind of sin and redemption," says Cash. On the CD's first track, Delia's Gone, Cash sings about the thin line between love and hate: "Delia, oh Delia/ Delia all my life/ If I hadn't shot poor Delia/ I'd have had her for my wife." Later he sings of salvation in the gospel- inflected Down There by the Train, describing a heavenly train for wrongdoers seeking righteousness: "There's no eye for an eye/ There's no tooth for a tooth/ I saw Judas Iscariot carrying John Wilkes Booth." Cash's voice...