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Word: centric (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week in Madrid, nature followed art in one man's brave and ec centric act of self-fulfilling prophecy. Precisely at noon on Sunday, 42-year-old Gonzalo Arias hung a brace of white posters over his shoulders and began to stroll down thronged Calle de la Princesa. The message, in black letters fore and aft, was simple: "In the Name of the Spanish People, I respectfully ask that free elections be held for the head of state." It was not the sort of thing that happens every Sunday afternoon in Spain, and heads spun as Arias paraded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain: The Poster Man | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

...pillows pounded into more or less human shape. His great slabs of beef (inspired by Rembrandt) were hideously bloodsplattered. His landscapes were wildly out of perspective. Yet today, a quarter of a century after his death (at the age of 50 in Paris), Soutine no longer seems an ec centric maverick; instead he has be come a mainstream figure in 20th cen art. The shift in judgment has been largely caused by the emergence of the New York school of abstract expressionism, whose leaders built with the same slapdash compulsiveness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Triumph of the Clumsiest | 2/23/1968 | See Source »

...home quality of their history. It is the center of things; China is not a place you want to go away from, it is a place to stay in. If you go out, you're going to the barbarian outside, where there's nothing. Chinese culture is Sino-centric, and today the people are still concerned with what's going on inside the country. They wish the outside would disappear and not bother them. This is very different from a seafaring country including not only the Japanese, ourselves and the British--but all these countries around the world, particularly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fairbank Employs 'Historical Perspective' To Understand Patterns in China Today | 7/18/1967 | See Source »

...says. Her withering stare could reduce a rabid dog to foaming jelly. She smiles lopsidedly at absurd questions. She gives lopsided answers too. Is she eccentric? "I hope I'm an individual. I suppose an eccentric is a superindividual. Perhaps an eccentric is just off-center-ex-centric. But that contradicts a belief of mine that we've got to be centrifugal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actresses: Mrs. John Bull, Ltd. | 5/24/1963 | See Source »

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