Word: veined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kind of eccentric Spieltrieb, the aesthetic play of the "humorous" cripple. To act upon the assumptions of a rejected humanism is tonic, or at least good for kick, and wry glimpses of a hypothetical salvation may still be achieved in the pick-up bed. This is the mother vein of romantic irony, clowning in the densely-populated limbo between "infinite will" and "confined execution...
...purpose of such visits should be an exchange of outlooks and values, but there are two pitfalls which must be avoided. One obstacle to a productive exchange arises when the visitor feels compelled to become an academic, and delivers labored, often pretentious lectures in a pseudoscholastic vein. This is what went wrong with Governor Rockefeller's Godkin Lectures. A visitor from the world of practical politics, or the Broadway stage, has much to offer the Harvard community, but he must not be afraid to speak in his own language, not the language he thinks Harvard expects...
Blood, just as it comes from a donor's vein, is worth more than fine old cognac; but unlike brandy, blood is harmed by aging. Faced with the necessity of throwing this costly liquid away after its effective life of 21 days has passed, a crooked dealer may break the rules and sell it anyway. A fortnight ago, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York alleged that a firm called Westchester Blood Service, Inc. had changed the dates on bottles of expired blood and then sold them to hospitals. It was the first such indictment ever...
...Author Dougherty values irony above all other literary minerals, and the vein runs deep. Several years later, Duggan muses on the rewards of goodfellowship: how even Avery's first wife-Duggan's present one-never abandoned her warm regard for the failed politician and faithless husband. The depth of that regard is vividly apparent to Duggan as he watches his sturdy young son, born after the second round of marriages but, he realizes uncomfortably, well before Avery drowned. "He is generous with his toys, and waits his turn at the slides even when he is being cheated...
Gone are the days of Potemkin when crowds swirled down the Odessa steps in a millrace of fluidity. Like Rembrandt, Eisenstein ended his career in a vein of classicism, but unlike Rembrandt, he worked in a medium that does not prosper when it gives up movement for stasis and symmetry--even when that symmetry ascends to such sublime heights as Ivan the Terrible, Part...