Word: abler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...season when a number of dealers and publications have been touting "photographic realism" as the latest new trend, at least two of Manhattan's abler painters have proudly displayed what might be called unphotographic realism. Their canvases differ widely, but both Jack Beal, 37, and Joseph Raffael, 36, invest the visible world with invisible qualities of fantasy and imagination...
After the 1920 Republican Convention, which chose him over two abler candidates, Major General Leonard Wood and Illinois Governor Frank O. Lowden, Harding became the compromise candidate to end all compromises. He was, at best, the man nobody really hated-the legendary two-o'clock-in-the-morning choice of political bosses horse-trading in a smoke-filled room...
Oscar Hubbard (E. G. Marshall) is a mean, vindictive half-man who vents his malice by slapping his genteel, alcoholic wife Birdie (Margaret Leighton). Oscar's brother Ben (George C. Scott) is shrewder, abler, more sardonic. Their sister Regina (Anne Bancroft) is ambitious for wealth, power and position. The trio's chance for the big money rests on joining a foxy Chicago manufacturer (William Prince) and sharing the costs of putting up a cotton mill. The key figure in the deal is Regina's husband Horace (Richard A. Dysart), ill in a Baltimore hospital. She orders...
...civil case load rises relentlessly over the years. From 58,293 cases in 1961, it climbed to 79,906 last year. One reason is that many lawyers prefer federal to state courts on the ground that the judges are abler, the jurors brighter and the rules fairer. It has not done any good to hike the minimum dollar amount involved in many federal suits to $10,000: lawyers simply sue for more. Though Congress has added 73 district judges since 1961, almost 10% of all civil cases still take more than three years to settle...
...Volunteer as a well-meaning amateur sent abroad to 'relate' to people came in for a strong battering." One expression of this point of view is that the Volunteer tends to see the solution to his problems in technical terms: he feels he needs better training, more modern textbooks, abler support from the Peace Corps staff, or special skills he doesn't now possess...