Word: utters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...version that dissents from the author's own wording. Said John Milton in his Areopagitica (1644): "Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties...
...even to dissent from, the opinions of the majority. As evidence of such a purpose, we have carved on one of [the walls of the Bar Center] this quotation from a great lover of freedom: 'Give me the liberty to know, to think, to believe and to utter freely according to conscience above all other liberties...
...plump and solemn in the white satiny knickers and gold epaulets of a general of the Chasseurs of his own Imperial Guard. He wears dangling on a red ribbon the medal of the Legion of Honor, which he himself instituted. Every detail of the picture shows David's utter and icy control of his medium; the whole shows something more-his red-hot hero worship. For all its artificiality of costume and scene, his picture gives Napoleon the look of a lonely eagle and a great human force...
...that often verges on caricature. Obviously ashamed of his people's long allegiance to Mussolini, Author Monelli does his best to de-Caesarize Italy's 20th century Caesar. In destroying the legend of Mussolini as hero, he occasionally seems to build up another legend of Mussolini as utter boob. But with that qualification in mind, Mussolini can be enjoyed as a highly readable biography...
...anxious air, as though it were sniffing for some good thing in the wind; the eyes, dark, full and deeply set, are penetrating, but full of an expression which almost amounts to tenderness . . . One would say that, although the mouth was made to enjoy a joke, it could also utter the severest sentence which the head could dictate, but that Mr. Lincoln would be ever more willing to temper justice with mercy . . ." That is the way Foreign Correspondent William Howard Russell sketched President Lincoln in 1861. It was this extraordinary gift for writing closeups (in an age when the camera...