Word: whispers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moreover, immovably eccentric: a gray whisper of a man who lived for 54 years with his crippled brother in a house on Utopia Parkway in Queens, N.Y.- an exile more singular than any expatriation to Tahiti. Cornell loved the idea of Europe but never went there. The house was crammed with cartons, dossiers, packets of old photos, clippings, hoarded books, gewgaws and boxes; these constituted the world in which he traveled. His only public gestures were occasional exhibitions and cover designs for the ballet magazine Dance Index. Self-promotion was unthinkable to him. Cornell always seemed an emissary from...
...life of a politician. Could he be subjecting himself to the chaos of political conventions because of an old obsession, the one prize life has denied him? How could a writer resist the fantasy: a hopelessly deadlocked convention; a sudden mammoth coming-to-trie-senses by the delegates; a whisper cascading into a roar that will not be gaveled into silence. And out into the glare of klieg lights and a forest of microphones there steps, at last, the Best...
...note to President Ford saying he was retiring that day, after nearly 37 years on the court-the longest term served by any Justice in history. When the suddenly subdued lunch eventually ended, Burger and the others each stepped up to the crippled senior Justice to shake hands and whisper a few private words of encouragement and farewell...
...world, the world says is full of love can you find it, can you enter, and remains, grow strong with it beautiful thing in the rain, the world, these sent things whisper mice, fucked ladies, whisps of cloud still visible four o'clock in the nighttime for the expanding or retracting dying or just coming thing we will always...
...Whisper Who Dares. Rather the reverse. The book notes some of the minor agonies of a lifetime trying to escape from literary renown: "Now Marmaduke, you can tell your friends you've shaken hands with Christopher Robin." Milne mentions his toe-curling horror at hearing classmates at boarding school play a record of Vespers on the Victrola: "Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares! Christopher Robin is saying his prayers." Enchanted Places is eloquent about the joys of countryside, the felicities of light verse. Milne writes with wit and humane perception about his later relationship with his father. In a space...