Word: bereft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...diplomats of their aura of glamor. The sense of international drama that runs through secret meetings in ancient buildings in London's Whitehall, or on Paris' Quai d'Orsay, is lost in the State Department's Room 5106 ("the largest conference room") in Foggy Bottom. Bereft of the vintage attention of exquisitely correct French huissiers, the men of diplomacy get a meat-and-potatoes feeling when they are shown around Washington by polite young men in business suits wearing blue lapel ribbons imprinted USHER...
Agog with glory after his fast tour as a "freelance newsman" trailing Fidel Castro's rebels in bar-bereft Cuba, where his trained eye zeroed in on the local frails, thirsted mightily for a stiffer mode of life ("Water to me is undrinkable"), and scribbled notebooks full of tidbits for a biography of Hero Fidel ("We're on a first-name basis"), paunchy Cinemactor Errol Flynn, 49, swashbuckled into Manhattan to praise his friend. "I've admired this man for at least two years," said Flynn, leaning heavily on the Disneylandish bar (fuchsia with pink lights...
...later performances five girls, bereft of wigs but required to appear as Greek goddesses, sprayed their hair silver, washed it out during the ten-minute intermission, returned in the next number as winsome peasant maids. One painted her slippers white for Paean, minutes later pink for Giselle. There was little evidence to suggest to the audience that the ballet had risen from ashes. Wrote La Libre Belgique: "The dancers of this excellent company provided us with a spectacle in which ballet [became] poetic language...
...perhaps the prejudice in favor of the strangely arid, yet emotionally pompous sociologist's view of man. The trouble is that little except diligence seems left of Pundit Lerner once the prejudice is gone. His middle-of-the-road stance leaves him not only free of bias but bereft of viewpoint. The middle of the road is a good place to be hit by the traffic of history, but a poor place to gauge its destination...
...able to show it in different ways if you are a girl or a god. If I am evil, I want you to feel like killing me." But when asked by eager Westerners about the "spirituality" of Indian dancing, Shanta Rao replies, her well-trained eyes twinkling: "I am bereft of spirituality. I only know work and sweat...