Word: accounts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...main direction of U.S. sculpture, throughout the 19th century and well into the 20th, was official and public. In a catalogue section titled Statues to Sculpture: 1890-1930, Art Historian Daniel Robbins gives a fascinating account of the plaster colossi produced by the cohabitation of raw new capital, laissez-faire idealism and academic talent. He also shows how the desire for emblematic icons of American history- realized by such grand-scale performers of the period as Augustus Saint-Gaudens-eventually made an accommodation with modern style through art deco. In the studios of beaux-arts figures like Saint-Gaudens...
...photographed or seen by outsiders, Hubbard turned up briefly in Clearwater last month, portly, in apparent good health and decked out in a khaki jumpsuit and matching tam-o'-shanter. Flamboyant and authoritative, Hubbard barked out orders to a crew of young people, opened a five-figure checking account and paid a tailor $2,800 for some new clothes...
...final word came the next day from Judge Carter. In his charge to the jury, he declared that the Government had to prove-beyond a reasonable doubt-that Patty had intentionally taken part in the bank robbery. "You are free to accept or reject the defendant's own account of her experience with her captors," Carter said. "Duress or coercion may provide a legal excuse for the crime charged against her. But a compulsion must be present and immediate . . . a well-founded fear of death or bodily injury with no possible escape from the compulsion...
...unfinished story that Woodward and Bernstein told in All the President's Men is about to be continued. Next month Simon & Schuster will publish their second collaborative effort, The Final Days, an account of the ending of Richard Nixon's presidency. The two reporters received a $300,000 advance for the work, which is a May Book-of-the-Month Club selection...
More often than not, Diggins prefers the easy, superficial one-liner to the serious argument. He quotes Edmund Wilson's succinct and moronic explanation of Dos Passos' conversion: "On account of Soviet Knavery/He favors restoring slavery." and asks "Fair or foul?" The reader can almost hear Diggins giggling in self-satisfied delight. Elsewhere he is simply pretentious. In an account of Buckley's attempts to reconcile Catholic theology with free-market economic precepts, Diggins intones solemnly, "Indeed conservatism, capitalism, and Christianity present an impossible synthesis." His penchant for constant alliteration, even when it requires the use of inappropriate words...