Word: abstractedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sharpest barbs these days are aimed at modern art and "Western espionage," it was just a matter of time before the KGB's cops would turn up a victim whose wrongdoings combined both evils. He turned out to be a Leningrad physics teacher whose taste for abstract painting allegedly led him to join the U.S. spy service...
...abstract, the case for reform is overwhelming. The U.S. tax structure, built up piecemeal over the decades, is so encrusted with exemptions, deductions, special-case provisions and loopholes for legalized evasion that only 43% of the total personal income in the U.S. is subjected to the federal income tax. The tax laws are inequitable, squeezing the salaried middle class, while enabling some millionaires to escape with relatively light levies, and some wage earners to get away without paying any income tax at all. But, in practice, tax reform runs into formidable political obstacles: taxpayers who benefit from special provisions want...
...What sort of smear is this?" gasped Nikita Khrushchev as he strolled past rows of abstract paintings in a Moscow art gallery last week. "You cannot figure out whether they were painted by human hands or daubed by a donkey's tail!" With these words, the Kremlin's ruler doused hopes of Soviet painters that a new liberal era of artistic freedom was under way in Russia...
...helping to found Manhattan's Riverside Democrats in the mid-fifties, Ryan made reform his central issue. In a state whose Democratic tradition embraces both Franklin Roosevelt and Carmine De Sapio, the question of honest, representative government is anything but abstract. The men Tammany Hall was shuttling into office were dependent only on the machine...
...concern that the Master conceive of the House as a girls' club. Girls do not want cultural or philanthropic activities on a small scale just for the sake of having them at the Quad. "That's too much like separate classes," one 'Cliffe remarked. Another admitted that "in the abstract I can think of talks that might be of special interest to women, but I can't think of any that I would go to." The Masters say that they want the impetus for activities to come from the students. They too want to avoid scheduling excessive events. Master Thimann...