Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quick-witted Lane had a suggestion. Said he: "Charles and I will write the history of what you guys believed in." The gunmen paused. Then one said, "Fine." The ready-to-die cultists hugged both lawyers. Lane had another apt thought. "Is there any way out?" he asked. The armed men pointed into the bush and said the road to Port Kaituma lay in that direction. The attorneys plunged into the jungle. As they fled, they heard Jones shouting...
...Stores in each city, catering to foreigners, offer more exotic but in many cases bargains-priced goods such as embroideries, porcelain, jade jewelry, furs, silks, scroll paintings and antique furniture. The attendants seem scrupulously honest. At some of the antique stores, though, the young comrades behind the counter are apt to be woefully ignorant of the objets d'art they are selling. In Wusih, a customer reasonably well versed in Chinese asks a salesgirl the exact meaning of the calligraphy on a 200-year-old wall scroll. Her hesitant reply: "Aim high to build our country," which is purest...
...contrary: it was unimaginable without its source, surrealism. Indeed, it was the last great efflorescence of romantic imagery in art. The New York painters were very selective about the modernist enterprise. They had lived through the Depression and arrived on the edge of a world war. They were not apt to believe in art-induced utopias-the rationalization of mankind through ideal form. So the Bauhaus-constructivist line meant little to them. Surrealism, however, was more congenial. To begin with, it was an art of subject matter; and although platoons of later critics would discuss abstract expressionism in purely formalist...
...Jerrold Gibson '51, director of the University's office of fiscal services, says the Opportunity Act would benefit Harvard students more than the tax credit because students at high-cost schools like Harvard are more apt to borrow money to finance their tuition payments and therefore need the expanded loan program. Also, a $500 tax credit hardly makes a dent in a Harvard term-bill whereas the different grant and loan programs can provide more meaningful amounts of aid for those students eligible...
...even journalists. The reasons are not hard to find. Moving targets offer little appeal to vandals. People who appear to be carrying nothing more negotiable than vigorous health are hardly patsies for muggers. No matter what their charm in repose, few runners going at full grunt offer a vision apt to incite any but the most dedicated molester. Finally, running has yet to produce an idea worth the kind of attack that citizens regularly launch against politicians, economists or entertainers...