Word: bents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...basis of actual party membership in the House-and the Republicans had to go along. Thus Democrats would hold a hefty 34-to-16 margin on Appropriations and a 17-to-8 ratio on Ways and Means. Of course, the new members were to be of a distinct L.B.J. bent. Said Larry O'Brian, the President's No. 1 congressional liaison man: "Half the struggle of enacting the Johnson program was over Saturday evening...
...Forces. Probably not. A better guess seemed to be that Sukarno was bent on forming a new organization to rally what he calls the "NEFOS" (New Emerging Forces) against the "OLDE-FOS" (Old Established Forces) and thus put an end to "NECOLIM" (NeoColonialist Imperialism). There were those who feared that Sukarno was now in full collusion with Red China in a master plot to establish a Peking-Djakarta axis...
...base of British taste. When the Royal Academy was founded in 1768 its president was Sir Joshua Reynolds, who canonized the images of Raphael and applied the Renaissance's grand manner to contemporary subject matter. In time, Gainsborough, Benjamin West, Turner and Constable became academicians. Royal patronage had bent the Italian Renaissance to its own visual empire, and the royal collection swelled with homegrown products. Before, Britain had only appreciated great painting; now it excelled...
Mostly, though, Klee worked harder than he played, and the "bent for the bizarre" he noted in himself as early as age nine was soon hammered into a credo. "I am not here," he proclaimed, "to reflect the surface (this can be done by a photographic plate), but must penetrate inside." That meant to Klee burrowing into the psyche and borrowing the squiggly insights of children and madmen, not to mention invoking his own unconscious, as in one of his diary's bursts of poetry: "Open thyself, thou gate in the depths . . . / Forth you beautiful pictures, wild beasts, / Spring...
Both Peter Bent Brigham and the Mental Health Center are affiliated with Harvard, and the Medical School is adjacent to the Brigham...