Word: adoptness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...artist's work can be fairly appraised by anyone but himself. No other artist, critic, museum curator or layman can temporarily adopt the character, personality, frame of mind and point of view the artist possessed at the time he was painting a particular picture . . . I highly respect the work of Ben Shahn and Willem De Kooning . . . They are both exceptionally capable...
...Fred Hand of Pelham, speaker of the house: adopt not one plan but many, and keep all these a secret in order to thwart the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. "If we run out of plans, I'd be in favor of the private-school plan ... I believe in segregation so strongly . . . that I'd gladly go to jail...
...office, it had no foreign-trade policy-although the materials out of which one might have been fashioned had been at hand for years. The Randall Commission, appointed to study trade policy, brought forth a plan that it advertised as imperfect but politically practical-a plan which Congress would adopt. The chairman, Inland Steel Co.'s Clarence Randall, assuring himself that he could win support from key congressional members of his commission, undertook to make compromises that reduced the President's bargaining power with Congress...
...would be a sorry thing if in resisting totalitarianism we were to accept the counsels of the frightened and adopt its methods.... Our job is to educate free, independent and vigorous minds capable of distinguishing truth from propaganda, and truth from half truth and lies...
...first, Novikoff appeared to be ready to adopt a course of general cooperation with the committee, which claimed to have evidence of his participation in Communist activities while a member of the faculty of Brooklyn College, prior to coming to Vermont...