Word: borrowings
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...ardent admirer of Hitler, he did not have to borrow Nazi racist ideas; he already had them. In 1941 he proclaimed: "One of the cornerstones of the British Empire is equal rights for everybody irrespective of color or smell. The other cornerstone is British-Jewish capitalism." Later he amplified his remarks to denounce "the detestable British-Jewish and liberal democratic system which we have in our country today." In recent weeks he has been openly critical of Malan's failure to make effective many of the stricter apartheid (segregation) measures. Said Strydom: "The old man is holding...
...years has been phenomenal. His last two one-man shows practically sold out (at $500 to $2,000 per painting), and he is now represented in eight important museums. To open an exhibition of Thon's latest paintings this week, Manhattan's Midtown Galleries had to borrow back twelve pictures it had already sold...
...Whedon, as the mousey Clyde, did not borrow his characterization from the many stock portrayals of the harried little man. By adding his own gestures and inflections, Whedon produces a likeable blundering, never grating in his blundering. Whedon's clear diction also benefits his singing moments and his numbers, particularly "Caviar and Roses," pretty nearly overcome the given handicaps...
...Viet Minh are correct," says one of these millions, a onetime Viet Minh official who deserted to the West. "They don't violate women. They take nothing. If they borrow a cup of water today, they return it tomorrow. But they watch you. They watch you all the time. They watch what you do. They know what you eat, how much you spend every day on meat and vegetables, whether you have a servant, or want...
...Zealots fought the Hellenic aggression by trying to keep out all Hellenic ideas and insisting on old ways and values to the last. The Herodians were as firmly convinced that the only way to stave off the enemy was to borrow enough Hellenism to give the Jews a chance to hold their own. In the end, both methods proved equally futile...