Word: burden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What is remarkable about Louis' canvases is their simplicity. They are devoid of any recognizable form; color is forced to carry the burden of Louis' whole message. He was a cubist and linear abstractionist for most of his life, but on a 1953 visit to New York, he saw Abstractionist Helen Frankenthaler experimenting with poured paint. Captivated, he abandoned brushes altogether, began thinning his paint, allowing it to wash in great waves down huge canvases. The resulting panoramas became his celebrated "veils of color...
Pass-fail's magic is limited by the heavy emphasis that graduate and professional schools will continue to put on grades and by the large burden that concentration requirements, and the desire to do well in their major, will continue to put on many undergraduates' schedules...
Shifting the Burden. David Rockefeller's Chase Manhattan bank, airing its views in its bimonthly "Business in Brief" bulletin, suggested that the nation make it "unmistakably clear that in a crisis" the U.S. would cease selling gold. Such a policy, the bank contended, would help shift to European countries "the burden of decision regarding the defense of the dollar"-a move that
...never taken a stand on the appointment of a city manager, although there was pressure to do so once in the early 1950's when Curry's predecessor was removed. The burden of proof, then, lies with the proponents of change...
...other Asian economies are less thriving, most are reversing the downward spiral. Indonesia, having bloodily saved itself from Communist takeover, now has to repair the intrinsically rich economy that Sukarno wrecked. Malaysia may yet fragment into its original pieces, but at least it has been relieved of the huge burden imposed by Indonesia's harassing little war. Prosperous Australia and New Zealand, though far to the south, now firmly consider themselves-and are accepted by Asians-as a part of Asia, and take a major hand in Asian councils. A U.S. observer summarizes: "The Asians are not thrashing around...