Word: aptness
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...Vice President delivered himself of some gratuitous remarks about blacks. Having met with three African leaders -Ethiopia's Haile Selassie, the Congo's Joseph Mobutu and Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta-Agnew told U.S. newsmen traveling with him that those Africans were "dedicated, enlightened, dynamic and extremely apt for the task that faces them." Then he added: "The quality of this leadership is in distinct contrast with many of those in the United States who have arrogated unto themselves the position of black leaders, those who spend their time in querulous complaint and constant recrimination against the rest...
...took in $6,000,000, a third of its revenue, from three licensed casinos, numerous slot machines, horse racing, greyhound races, jai alai and a local lottery. The Casino Pix, located on the 13th floor of the Sarinah Department Store, is hardly plush as casinos go. The clients are apt to shun tie and jacket for open sports shirts. There is no alcohol, no floor show, no music-but big winners are provided with a ride home to protect their cash. "Elsewhere it is the bandits who benefit," says Djakarta's forceful mayor, Major General Ali Sadikin. "Here...
...acquisitions than functions. The Metropolitan speaks with politic sincerity of "bringing art to the people"-though this did not deter it last October from slapping what amounts to a tax on art education by reinstituting an admission fee for the first time in 30 years. But these declarations are apt to be gutted by the display of a now old multimillion-dollar painting. For what will Juan de Pareja on its draped wall in the Metropolitan mean to an intelligent 18-year-old from Spanish Harlem when he sees it and remembers the price? (As well he may, since...
...solve all conservation problems, but it would contribute a precious measure of alleviation and diminish art's humiliating dependence on erratic charity. Most of all, it could mitigate the crushing sense of waste and meaninglessly flamboyant consumption that anyone who cares about art and its priorities is apt to feel on reading about the cost of next week's Louis XVI table...
...publication that is apt to offend some sensibilities?even large ones ?part of the price of maintaining a truly open society? "We have never paid it before. To my knowledge, this is the first time in history that a government's right to carry on some of its business outside the public eye has, in effect, been challenged...