Word: blot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like an ink blot spreading relentlessly across a clean blotter, Harvard may well continue to spread into and dominate Cambridge--or so city officials fear, in the wake of a new University loan program which offers low-interest, long-term mortgage terms to tenured faculty members buying nearby housing...
...inert. In this way a most sonorous pictorial eloquence is placed at the service of incommunicable feelings, and the sad facts of Rothko's life rush in to complete the missing subject matter. In a sense, the late works are declarations of the impotence of painting: it could not blot up enough anguish, or take the burden of existence away from the artist. The Black Hole expanded to fill the canvas, but no surface could contain the hole. ?Robert Hughes
...Americans' St. Patrick's Day; but a more appropriate date for "Italian-American Day" can (and should) be found, one that commemorates one of the many truly constructive Italian-American contribuitons to the United States. Many people feel that the massacre of the Native Americans is just an ugly blot in our past, and that the current state of "the greatest country in the world" makes up for, even if it doesn't justify, our evil colonial history. And, of course, most people probably don't think of Columbus Day as anything but an excuse...
...carefully blot out names and other clues to informants' identities but cannot otherwise refuse criminals' requests. Under the law, they have the same right as any other citizen to find out what is in Government files about them and to correct any misinformation...
...some ways, those who take a hard-line on Humphrey's career are persuasive. His position on Vietnam was no small blot on an otherwise brilliant record--to the contrary, attitudes on the war must be considered central in the assessment of anyone who held high office during those years. Humphrey may not have been an architect of the war policy but in playing the role of supporter he implicated himself in some of its ugliest facets: fudging reports of fact-finding trips, referring to "our finest hour," condoning the clubbings in the streets of Chicago...