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Word: aright (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disclose is inexhaustible. But his work never succumbed to impressionist softness or generalization. Its tone is one of thoughtful clarity. The old root is not a symbol of old age; it is just wood, under light, put through a lens, chemically fixed. But the action of seeing it aright gathers so much meaning that Atget's photography can reasonably be called a moral act. As MOMA'S curator of photography, John Szarkowski, remarks in his admirable catalogue essay, "Atget's implicit confidence in the continuity and authority of culture was almost old-fashioned even in the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Photography: Images from Old France | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

From the general jubilation it seemed that confidence about the national past might stand at least as good a chance of turning things aright as members of the left do. Whatever else it may have been, surely this was not their day. Ken Livingstone, radical leftist leader of the Greater London Council, spurned his invitation to the wedding and spent the day in an empty office building doing "paperwork." Up in Derbyshire, in the town of Clay Cross, residents resisted the plan of the left-dominated town council to hold a "republican day" on the 29th and instead festooned their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: WHY EVER NOT?: The Royal Wedding | 8/10/1981 | See Source »

...Estate begin to make repairs--with the implict threat that they would be taken to court if they did not make the repairs. At first Harvard Real Estate used Hunneman as a whipping boy for past mistakes and current problems: tenants were told that Harvard Real Estate would set aright all the mistakes (shoddy repairs and maintenance or none at all) made by Hunneman. We soon discovered, though, that Harvard Real Estate made the important decisions about the building, including the petition for the increase. Hunneman implemented Harvard Real Estate's decisions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Real Estate Policy Needs Repair | 2/13/1980 | See Source »

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