Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matter what may now be done about The Deal, two facts seemed basic: 1) the dispatch of the British Home Fleet to patrol the waters between Italy and Ethiopia (TIME, Sept. 30) acted like a blood transfusion in reviving the League of Nations; 2) the British display of readiness last week to consider dismemberment of Ethiopia as a possible and perhaps desirable solution was to the League of Nations like the bloodsucking caress of a vampire...
...months first-rate exhibitions of this art have been held in Manhattan, Paris, London (TIME, April 119th). Plain gallery-goers sometimes find it difficult to understand much of an art which has nothing whatever to do with the civilized European concept of Beauty, but which stems directly from the basic emotion of fear. But one fact is plain to all eyes: in any showing of African art the bronzes and carvings of the vanished Kingdom of Benin are definitely superior in spirit and technique to other Negro art. Proudly last week in Manhattan the distinguished Knoedler Galleries put on display...
...opinion this country needs a larger, permanent body of minor administrative officials which would not be affected by elections except as to its basic policies. He believes that the School of Public Administration would be valuable in recruiting for such a body, providing a semi-civil service training...
...Eager, though he has failed to tell his story in terms of the theatre, presents it engagingly. No one can deny him the plausibility of his basic situation, or the ingratiating quality of his central characters. Despite a facile ability to mock, to gain an honest laugh with the neatly arranged summations of an individualized and quixotically observing eye, he argues forthrightly, within the limitations of his immaturity, both sides of his theme...
After several weeks of strenuous practice, devoted mainly to basic principles, the Harvard Freshman swimming team will meet Massachusetts Institute of Technology at 4.30 o'clock this afternoon...