Word: utterance
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...gradual revelation of Vogler's disgust with the world (visually depicted by the carefully-directed progression from impenetrability to utter weariness in his facial expression) occurs while a committee of cynical officials reviews the troupe's act to see whether it is suitable for the towns-folk. The enertainers--a youthful coachman, the cunning and comical manager, Tubal, Vogler's wife disguised as a man, and an old hag who claims to be a witch 200 years old--then go off on their own to adventures both comic and serious, romantic and metaphysical...
...happier men watch birds, I watch men." confesses Evelyn Waugh, and in this account of two months of African travel early last year, he is as good as his word. His collector's eye for the gaudier human specimens and his ear for the strange sounds they utter are as sharp as ever. As for the prose: in the present sellers' market, no man writes English better...
...ruling Liberal Democrats) and paraded Asanuma's widow about in hope of a sympathy vote. After Yamaguchi's hanged body was found, Saburo Eda, acting chairman of the Socialists, shifted his ground and growled: "The fact that an important criminal was able to commit suicide exposes the utter irresponsibility of the authorities in charge...
Boston Democratic politicos are sanguine to greater or lesser degrees today; but they seem to wear an expression of healthy ebulliance as they utter the last familiar gasps of the campaign all over the city. Nobody was in at the Kennedy Headquarters on Tremont Street. "They're all down at the Boston Garden," said the elevator boy, "getting ready for the next President of the United States." And a Ward campaign manager added: "President Kennedy...
...year career in which he had become the nation's best-known syndicated radio and television columnist-and announced that henceforth he would be a critic of all U.S. society. His parting shot at TV: "This great medium of information and education is totally dedicated to utter vacuity...