Word: forcefullness
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Mr. Bontemps can sketch convincing characters, to use an overworked expression. His negroes are authentic, and so are his "planter" aristocrats. Ben, the loyal old slave, who betrays the insurgents; Melody, the mulatto mistress of the white rascals; Juba, the slave girl who is in love with the hero; Mr...
Antony Knebworth's lines were cast in pleasant places. He was born the eldest son of the Earl of Lytton, in a pre-War England that might well have seemed his family's garden. His godfather, Edward VII, confirmed the prestige of his birth; his fairy godmothers gave...
An eagle, he said, one day swooped down terrifyingly close as he was walking along a mountain road, and left his young mind imbued with a strange exaltation as it soared away into the sky. "The intense feeling of longing for something", stated the lecturer, "is one of the strongest...
Novelist Wharton wrote a painful book. Her story of how Ethan and young Mattie, trying to escape the nagging claims of Ethan's sickly wife, become instead dependent on her attentions for the rest of their lives, is presented relentlessly, a bitter frieze of figures on a frozen ground...
Those graduates and undergraduates who have competed in track or who have followed the successes of Harvard track teams learn with sorrow that Eddie Farrell is forced by ill-health to take a leave of absence. Always a dynamic and forceful personality, Eddie has been an inspiration to the many...