Word: raring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Frederick Ridgely Torrence, 75, poet (Hesperides) and playwright (Plays for a Negro Theatre), whose rare, carefully polished verses made him a reputation as one of the best craftsmen among 20th Century U.S. poets; in Manhattan. Fellow Poet Robert Frost wrote in A Passing Glimpse: To Ridgely Torrence, On Last Looking into His "Hesperides...
Graham Sutherland is that rare phenomenon among modern painters, a first-rate craftsman. He draws with great assurance, turns his hand easily to designing china, tapestries and rugs as well as to strictly "like" portraiture (TIME, June...
Master's Touch. With Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting members of his New York Philharmonic-Symphony, Szigeti gave his sell-out audience four works for violin and orchestra-and nothing else, a rare program for the U.S. (though not for European audiences). He opened with the clear, forthright Corelli suite La Folia; then came the Brahms Violin Concerto, followed by Portrait No. 1, an early work of his late Hungarian compatriot and friend Bela Bartok, and finally the Beethoven Concerto...
Make a resumé Of my vertebrae Appraising their rare design...
...trouble with most contemporary novelists is that they keep putting words into the mouths of their characters. They also make them do things that seem out of character. English Author Henry Green is an exception and a rare one. Reading his best novels is like eavesdropping on his characters. They say and do the things they would if Green and his readers weren't around, but, without knowing it, they say and do them the way Green wants them...