Word: staringer
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The Sack Suit. The people are fascinated and curious to meet their ex-god in the flesh. Said a Nagasaki official: "No wonder the people are excited and happy. This is the first time they have really seen the Emperor. Before, we had to bow deeply when he passed. By...
Descriptions of Isaiah Berlin range from "the most brilliant man in the Western World" to "the wittiest" to "the best conversationalist." You have an uncomprehending respect for people who so describe him for you feel they belong to the inner circle, the practiced. The outsider suspects the significance of the...
It could have been little more than a week ago--two weeks at the most--when the Vagabond found himself leaning back in a chair, tie loosened, sleeves rolled up, holding a book. He had the book in his lap, but reading he was not. He was Contemplating. Staring into...
Seven years later, almost unnoticed in the surge of great events, the aging dreamer returned to Nice. He wrote endlessly, tended his bees or simply sat staring out the windows in his study. When heavy rains recently washed out the telephone line that linked his house to the outside world...
A visitor last week described an audience with MacArthur: "The performance was less exalted than I had expected. He has an avuncular sort of friendliness and at the same time maintains the dignity of age and position. I cannot imagine another U.S. general lowering his voice and, staring musingly into...