Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tilted backward, "as on the artist's easel"; lighting would come from skylights above the ramp and would be reflected downward by louvers. "The net result of such construction is greater repose," Wright declared, "an atmosphere of the unbroken wave-no meeting of the eye with angular or abrupt changes of form...
...Disturb. In 1930 a University College, Cork, professor asked permission to examine the diaries in connection with a biography he was writing. Back from the Home Office came the abrupt reply that was to be the policy of every government, Labor or Tory, since: "It was decided long ago not to make any official statement as to the existence or nonexistence of these diaries." In time another theory gained wide currency: that Casement had merely copied detailed descriptions of homosexual practices from the writings of a cruel employer in Peru whose exposure had helped win Casement his knighthood. According...
...only major fault is the screenplay, written by Hamer from an adaptation by Gore Vidal. It's a pity Vidal wasn't allowed to do the whole job. Hamer's script leaves a number of loose ends and unclear motivations; and the denouement is both trite and inexcusably abrupt. But the picture is worth seeing for its performances...
Reinforcing this propaganda bombardment are a plan of military training in even the communes, and an abrupt fusion of the traditional education program with the Marxist productive labor theories. Rau admitted that he was ready to be impressed, but had returned to India disillusioned by the impersonal impact of his hosts, the discovery that "modesty is not a Communist vice," and the uneasy feeling that he had been constantly watched...
...last 18 months, Ethel Barrymore was virtually an invalid in her home in Beverly Hills, suffering from arthritis and heart disease. Her brothers had long since made their exits, John in 1942, Lionel in 1954. Still she remained the pleasantly abrupt commentator who once told an audience of Philadelphia clubwomen that they were moronic, who thought television was hell (although she had tried that, too). She remained an avid boxing and baseball fan ("I might have liked football, but I always had Saturday matinees and couldn't get to games"). And she kept up her reading; her home bulged...