Word: broad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Avoiding Division. While his reception in Indiana was unexpectedly emotional, Nixon himself was characteristically cool in his second radio address on the problems of the city and the Negro. Spelling out in detail the broad programs he had outlined the week before, he stressed the need for tax credits and other relatively inexpensive Government incentives to encourage industry to build in the slums and rural poverty areas. "The old ways have failed," he said. "The crisis of the old order is not the crisis of today...
Starting this summer, Reston will replace Turner Catledge, 67, as executive editor. That means becoming boss of the entire news operation, daily and Sunday. Catledge, meanwhile, becomes a vice president and director and will involve himself in "broad areas of corporate policy." Not since 1942, when he served briefly as an assistant to then publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger, has Reston been stationed in New York...
...ease the transfer of white businesses to blacks. The agreement gave the community group control of resources, which seemed the key community demand. But the problem of hard-won foundation grants wasn't involved, and there was only one project and a relatively small group of people involved. Broad, institutionalized cooperation will vastly increase the chance of misunderstanding--slighting of community advisors, and a whole range of personal problems which easily take on racial connotations...
...current exhibition together, has pointed out, Degas devoted so much time to the monotype in order to free himself as much as he desired from the classical constraints of his innate sense of line. With a rag he was able to wipe away ink and compose in broad spaces. Privately modeling in this medium, as in the sculpture, Degas was able to counterbalance his draughtsmanship and realize form and volume. Publicly, the result was the marvelously transitory, captured, psychological quality of his work. This sense of spontaneity made him among the first to utilize in his paintings the nature...
...could lead a Yale sweep unless Harvard's Jim Coleman can break into the high jump standings and Bob Galliers can place in the broad and triple jump...