Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Armed with house painter's brushes and paints (he could afford no better), he labored with endless preliminary sketches and interminable revisions to build a series of carefully thought out, tense compositions. They were, of course, meant to look as though they had been stroked impetuously on the canvas in a matter of minutes. Said he: "The final test of a painting is: Does the painter's emotion come across?" To be sure that his did, he left his painting surfaces an intricate jumble of spatters, strokes and corrections...
...fellows were creating a new artistic language, through the push and pull of the images and the very strokes of the brush, to express emotions that could not be put into words. But, as Kline found himself becoming a success, the task became more difficult. He could now afford linen, instead of cotton, canvas and real artist's pigments, but these, he found, produced a slickness that belied his deliberate crudeness. His compositions became larger and more complex. Unfortunately, they often ended up murky and inconclusive...
...there not some anesthetizing cliche, some lulling bromide to placate the chickenbrain who shells out thirty-five cents that he can ill afford to buy this idiotic picture-book...
...contributed out of their fear of R.F.K.'s attitudes toward businessmen. Only recently have the funds begun to flow again, mostly from New York. While Nixon has jammed prime-time with television announcements, Humphrey plaintively told California students last week: "I haven't been able to afford a TV ad since last Aug. 20, so help...
...must bear in mind the distinction between forceful leadership and stubborn willfulness. And he should not delude himself into thinking that he can do everything himself. America today cannot afford vest-pocket government, no matter who wears the vest. The President is trusted not to follow the fluctuations of the public-opinion polls but to bring his own best judgment to bear on the best ideas his Administration can muster. There are occasions on which a President must take unpopular measures. But his responsibility does not stop there. The President has a duty to decide, but the people have...