Word: aptness
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...Debts. His own work reveals an exquisite sense of style, but he never discussed art in stylistic terms; he was apt (and at this distance one cannot know to what degree he used it as a strategic ploy) to act the salty curmudgeon when other artists were discussed. Most French painting he professed to ignore. "I saw a painting of a boat by Manet-to me it was a joke -to me Manet didn't know boats -didn't know the sea." Marin did, however, admire Boudin, the 19th century painter of seascapes and beach resorts-"He knew...
...during his three-day rest in the Virgin Islands last week. He took along three books, each of them "dull," he said. It is not known how much reading he got done in all that sunshine, but one selection, Robert Blake's biography of Benjamin Disraeli,* was especially apt. The great Tory, who 100 years ago led his country into a memorable period of progressive reform, once wrote: "All power is a trust . . . we are accountable for its exercise; from the people, and for the people, all springs, and all must exist...
...deer and bear. His face is a seamed reflection of prairie hardships, crowned by a flowing silver mane. He is 71, but his belly is still taut from a daily regimen of 15 pushups. When asked if he likes life in a place like New York, Dan George is apt to shake his head gently and reply, "No, it is not a good place to live. You have to look...
...merely say, "Their manners, you know, are so delightfully natural!" In conclusion, however, we really must remind our excellent friends- however much we may enjoy their little jeux d'esprit - that we are all more or less bound by social conventions; and the outside and unrefined world are sadly apt not to take insult or invective, as we know it is given,- purely, in a Pickwickian sense...
...semi-outlaw motorcycle clubs is a litany of imps in the pit, from the Animals, and Axemen, through the Equalizers and Exterminators, the Marauders and Mongols, the Raiders, and Road Vultures, to the Warlocks and Wheels of Soul. The unsavory names with which these gangs have christened themselves are apt to make the public forget that their collective membership is probably no more than 3,000, the merest fraction of the 3,000,000 people who regularly ride bikes in the U.S. In fact, these "outlaws" on the road are infinitely less of a threat than the driver...