He did not speak IBMerese and gave a clear survey of intent and scope of his organization.

Ann stared hard but movelessly at her brother, the full red lower lip gradually falling away from the pouting red upper one until a double ripple of pearl appeared between them.

It should be noted that there is now no intelligentsia that is not in some sense Left. Perhaps the last right-wing intellectual was T. E. Lawrence. Since about 1930 everyone describable as an “intellectual” has lived in a state of chronic discontent with the existing order.

Delsarte was the best way to accomplish health, Bishop felt, not just because it was beautiful, but because grace is economy of force; awkwardness is physical extravagance […]