Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make the week a banner occasion there was yet another unveiling: a massive 50-ton rose granite abstract sculpture placed in the garden of the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. Hewn out of three 100-ton blocks in a Spanish quarry by Eduardo Chillida, 42, the work was commissioned by Houston's Endowment Inc. To accompany the gift, Museum Director James Johnson Sweeney has assembled the first U.S. retrospective of Chillida, a man who. only began sculpting in 1948, was a Carnegie prize-winner in 1964, and today ranks as Spain's leading abstract sculptor. His granite giant...
...soon the whole discussion was turned into a nation-wide scandal. A Boston newspaper, the Record-American, more than a month after Dean Watson's statement, announced in a front-page banner headline: "Harvard Bares Wild Parties." Of course Harvard had bared nothing, the Record-American had chosen some select passages from Dean Monro's letter to the CRIMSON in which he expressed his position on the parietals question. But after all this controversy, there were no changes in parietal hours...
When he goes on the stump, the President certainly has one banner that he can-and does-wave effectively: the considerable accomplishments of his Administration. He repeatedly harks back to the gloomy days of the '30s, reminding his audiences that the problems of prosperity are infinitely preferable to those of depression. Again and again, he tells listeners that they never had it so good, and he unabashedly counts America's-and his-blessings in his speeches. "We have many problems," he says, "but there is not a nation in the world that I would want to trade problems...
...House policemen were crying "Lock the doors!" in preparation for the vote, a news dispatch was passed down the Conservatives' Front Bench. What they read caught the Tories-and the nation-by surprise. Said one admirer of Wilson's fast footwork: "The press can only carry one banner headline...
...contribute money in the manner of architects in the expectation that if their man is elected he will assist them in practicing their particular art, on behalf of and at the expense of, the people of Massachusetts," Galbraith wrote in the Boston Globe. The article, which ran as a banner story on page one of yesterday's morning edition, had been requested by the newspaper...