Word: wondrous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aching Sincerity. Actor Guinness has never been out of a job since. Three months later he was playing Osric to Gielgud's Hamlet, and the critics took special note of his "admirable popinjay." Then it was William ("a wondrous blank") in As You Like It, Sir Andrew Aguecheek ("a collector's item") in Twelfth Night, Lorenzo ("meditative, star-struck beauty that takes the breath away") in The Merchant of Venice. And at 24, he played his first Hamlet in an Old Vic production directed by Tyrone Guthrie. Most critics agreed that the Hamlet lacked force, but one wrote...
Said former Aussie Davis Cupper Adrian Quist: "Their sole aim seemed to be to crush one another. Their standard of play is better than we have ever seen." Said Hoad, who is only too happy to explain how he has hopped up his game to match the wondrous power of Gonzales: "I'm hitting harder, flatter, trying to drive the other man to the base line. Either he can slam a hot one down the sideline or he can go for a cross-court drive. Now I always cover that sideline...
...every step and gesture. The tilt of his head or the stoop of his shoulders, the raising of his hand or the arching of his brow, make a prose description something quite awkward if not faintly sacrilegious. Marcel Marceau is an accomplished actor, a striking artist, and a wondrous, wordless poet...
...Pentagon office of the U.S. Secretary of Defense, on the ornate library table once owned by William Tecumseh Sherman, perches a model of the Oozlefinch Bird, a wondrous creature indeed. This week, as the Congress returns to a Washington torn between the costly requirements of national defense and the allure of economy in an election year, and as a high-powered Rockefeller committee reports on the faults of the nation's defense organization, the Secretary of Defense need be even more wondrous than the Oozlefinch. For an appraisal of Neil Hosier McElroy, sixth U.S. Secretary of Defense, see NATIONAL...
...Paso, somebody reported a "wondrous white craft with forward and aft searchlights, a pair of propellers and a cigar-shaped body with giant wings." ¶ In Atlanta, a man and his wife saw a "high object with about eight lights on it"; a hunter reported a great horizontal beam; a woman saw a red, egg-shaped thing; a housewife thought it was a cigar; three truck drivers said it was a red, egg-shaped ball...