Word: sparta
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Next day the Washington Post and Times Herald hailed him: "An inspiring plea ... It is hard to disagree with Mr. Folbright." Added Adlai E. Stevenson: "I made the same point in two campaigns." But the New York Times was not bemused: "The speech went as far back as Sparta and Athens to illustrate some of its points, but perhaps the most remarkable point was that a Senator from Arkansas could speak so long and so eloquently . . . without once mentioning or discussing Little Rock...
...socializing and no sport makes Jane a dull girl. Since few moderns take their exercise a la ancient Sparta, the designers have created sportswear for action and relaxation...
...middleaged. But then he was caught up by a wave of buying enthusiasm for the poetic reveries he had begun to paint. He grew increasingly rich in money, but poorer in the quality of his work. During his later years, however, in such paintings as Young Girls of Sparta (opposite) he achieved a new quality in figure painting. By treating his female models as he had his landscapes ("I paint a woman's breast just as I would an ordinary milk can"), he worked from atmosphere toward firm and solid form, fused his figures with the background. Happy until...
When Israel sprang into existence in 1948, some of its U.N. sponsors wondered whether it would find its peaceful place in the Middle East or develop into a "nasty little Sparta." Its 650,000 people, with the help of a sympathetic world, had elbowed their way to a place in a hostile part of the world. They performed prodigies of desert pioneering. But they never succeeded in winning the tolerance or the trade of their neighbors...
...line but kills its spirit by relentless pursuit of the obvious gag, the single entendre, the rhyme-at-any-cost; e.g., "The air is full of your infidelities," sings Juno. "No? The hell it is," rhymes Jupiter in one of the better couplets. And so it goes, with garter-Sparta, Hades-ladies, loony-Juny (for Juno), until the elegantly frothy music is almost lost between the heavy text and the embarrassed sighs of the audience. Most remarkable fact of all: the man who managed thus to combine the theatrical naivete of a junior-highschool pageant with the vulgarity...