Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...smile fondly at us. Most of the time we are subjected to a crossfire which makes running the gauntlet look like a stroll. Comments like "Mmmmmm, nice," and "Hi there, honey" from total strangers may seem harmless; but because of them a women who ventures out in public is apt to return home feeling more-totalled than Total...
...O.A.S., was successful for the U.S. The words L.B.J. used to justify the involvement-"to insure the safety of innocent people, to restore normal conditions and to open a path to democratic process"-were almost the same as Reagan's last week. Yet the comparison is not quite apt: the intervention in the Dominican Republic was not exactly an invasion, because the troops had been requested by the military authorities ostensibly in control of that Caribbean country. In fact, never before in this century have U.S troops actually invaded a country to fight against a ruling government...
...Boston, Superintendent Robert Spillane is improving one of the nation's most racially torn school systems. An apt symbol is South Boston High School, where whites clashed with blacks in the mid-'70s. Today Southie is a well-balanced school with a population of 856 students that is 43% black, 34% white, 11% Asian and 12% Hispanic. In 1976 Headmaster Jerome Winegar began an in-school suspension program: students who get into trouble are assigned special help under a supervising teacher instead of being
Today these objections sound like dated cavils. All art is fiction, and the more complex the fiction the better the art is apt to be. Motherwell's elegance is not a matter of style. It comes from deeper wells: mainly from his highly critical and intelligent sense of the accumulated language of modernism and of how his own pictorial impulses relate to that language. It is the elegance of realized thought...
...then, did a Market which had broken on Oct. 23 demonstrate with a continued crash on Oct. 24 that the end of the Great Bull Market had really arrived? Apt appeared the analogy between the break on the market and a run on a bank. The Bank was U. S. Industry. Assets of the bank were the real assets of U. S. Industry. Stocks were the paper money which the bank had issued. Now all banks, even the Federal Reserve System, issue more money in paper than they have gold in their vaults. Every bank would be broken...