Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sufficient to protect the public from a crippling strike. Since unions and management have adopted such diametrically-opposed stands, any settlement will involve a substantial retreat by either or both sides--or even government action such as compulsory arbitration or temporary seizure of the railroads. Rail transportation cannot be halted for more than a week without economic consequences far more serious than the repercussions of the steel strike, at least in the opinion of many economists...
...Greatness overnight. "J.B., it must be added, is strong stuff," he warned. "Too strong, one knows, for Broadway success this season or next." But eventually all would be well, he concluded: "And yet Broadway will come to it in time, because it must, because great imagination and great talent cannot be denied forever. Meanwhile, Yale is preparing it for production, and certainly the summer theatres and the college groups throughout the country will have found a new star forever. For J.B. adds a dimension to the accomplishment of American literature. We now have a great American poetic drama...
...possibility of moving all Sophomore tutorial into the Houses is simply unfeasible at the present, according to members of the Radcliffe Committee to Study Tutorial. Even if such a move were entirely advisable, space in the Houses cannot now be made available for it, Kathleen O. Elliott, Radcliffe Dean of Instruction and member of the Committee, said yesterday...
...Modigliani was profoundly influenced by Cubist distortion of the human form, and most of his drawings from this period are unsatisfying. In oil paint, the vigor of his rough and somewhat arbitrary compositions is easily expressed but soft and hard graphite pencil on a thin, flexible paper cannot imbue them with the necessary conviction. The scribbly, hectic quality of a piece like La Francaise indicates the extent to which the Cubist treatment of the human form was alien to Modigliani's romantic, and poetic temperament...
...President, McKinley almost always expressed himself in sonorous platitudes, but never did he come closer to stating a political creed than in a speech made when he was running for Governor in 1891: "We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money" (what he meant was the sacredness of the gold standard). Sitting out the first presidential campaign (on his front porch in Canton, Ohio) against Bryan in 1896, he must have been shocked by the Nebraskan's notion that mankind was being "crucified on a cross of gold." The voters agreed with McKinley, and Author Leech emphasizes what...