Word: begin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...field of education. "Copies are being made in schools every day," he says, "making up examinations, making theses, and so on.'' He warns enthusiastic musical illiterates not to "expect a rush of composers suddenly to sit down behind desks with cigarettes dangling out of their mouths and begin pouring out a ream of symphonies on these machines. The Music Writer will simply be used instead of a pen when it comes to making finished copies...
...editorial [from the Richmond News Leader) sounds more like something out of the Daily Worker . . . It appears that instead of wasting our time trying to educate the peoples of Iron Curtain Europe we should begin at home behind our own Iron Curtain, sometimes known as the Mason-Dixon line...
...would like to begin," said Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, "by expressing our sincere appreciation to Mr. Robinson, the mayor of San Francisco, for the hospitality accorded to us in this marvelous city." His voice was flat and expressionless; before him in anxious rows sat New Zealanders, Nicaraguans and Norwegians, Pakistanis, Panamanians and Paraguayans; the western suits of the Yemenites showed from beneath their Arab robes...
...final victory brought a flush of belated pride to Peale's expatriate fellow artists. Benjamin West wrote asking for sketches of Continental uniforms. Stuart came home in 1793, to begin making portraits of the aging Washington. Peale himself went on to found the first scientifically arranged natural-history museum in America, was the prime mover in founding the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1805, the oldest U.S. art school still in existence (TIME, Feb. 7). When Peale died in 1827, one of his finest tributes was the memory of an old Continental who said: "He fit and painted...
...when the shocked male trustee of his estate puts an end to repression-shedding and the divine new school: "Over delicately retouched photographs of . . . the student body were [newspaper] headlines such as SEX SCHOOL SEIZED, with articles by civic leaders and an outraged clergy that all seemed to begin: 'Mother, What Is Your Child Being Taught...