Word: devoid
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...seems to be saying that this is what much of life in the U.S. is like; certainly Updike's scene and people seem too threateningly typical. Yet the real weakness of the book is Rabbit's own. Not many men, no matter how desperate, are as devoid of inner resources. For all its excellences, it would have been a bigger book if Rabbit had been a bigger...
...will be decided by an electorate that, to an extent unique in history, were able to look at the candidates and their programs in a cool, objective light, free of the usual hoopla, pennants and brass bands. The electronic eyes that scan the men in the TV studio are devoid both of prejudice and of any softening human kindness. For the candidates there is no place to hide, no way of ducking behind a "no comment" or a sonorous platitude. Every quaver of voice, every fleeting grimace, is subject to merciless scrutiny...
...share some striking similarities in their public images. Their speeches are clean-cut, utterly devoid of oratorical flamboyance. They are both, though smiling often, fundamentally a new, sober breed of politician. And though many who have seen neither close up regard them both as machine-made organization men, one of the surprises of the campaign is the intensity of their impact in person. The crowds swarm around them, eager to touch or be touched by them...
...Connecticut. When she was one year old in 1879. an ungallant Manhattan critic wrote of her: "She is the old conventional Greek woman with no clothing in particular about the upper part of her body, and a great deal more than is necessary about the lower half. She is devoid of expression." Years later, the publisher of the Hartford Courant, having heard that Genius' footing was getting shaky, is said to have observed: "We are faced with the question of whether we want a loose woman reigning over us or a fallen woman in our midst." The 1938 hurricane...
...Texas tycoon. Thirty Savile Row firms now have agents in the U.S., and some do 90% of their summer business with American tourists. Under pressure from such lucrative customers, most will now cut suits along slimmer American lines, and some have even consented to make drainpipe trousers devoid of "turnups" (cuffs...