Word: untidyness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The corridors of the United Nations-whether in New York or Paris-have grown used to an untidy priest. He is tall and strikingly handsome. He has that reserved, proconsular look, the bony nose, the clear eyes, the careless hair that the British prefer for their archetype rather than the...
The trouble lies partly in the overall design of Paint Your Wagon, in its concern with the swarming life-the rise, feminization and decline-of an entire mining town. Though fine for choral or choreographic doings, the crowded cast is cumbrous and untidy for storytelling. For half the evening, moreover...
As any visitor to the untidy London flat might guess, it houses an old bachelor. In the sitting room, a hastily thrown coverlet drapes an obviously unmade bed. A litter of books, manuscripts and knick-knacks lines walls and floors like the twigs of a nest. Amiably at home in...
Seventy-two-year-old E. M. Forster is almost as rumpled and untidy as his rooms. The tweeds he wears are worn and baggy, his thinning grey hair unruly, his bushy grey mustache in need of a trim. Bony and angular, with pale, piercing eyes, he looks, as one American...
Scientists who believe in God are simply exposing dark, untidy corners of their minds. Those who say they cannot accept chaos probably mean they cannot accept the ignorance which they humbly offer as a promise for their belief . . .