Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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How can you possibly desecrate and denigrate art by publishing under its aegis those nightmarish horrors by Picasso? That legendary character is fooling no one but himself with his ghoulish atrocities. Of his more conventional paintings, the "Mother and Child" is a poor imitation of Michelangelo's.
Without visibly mounting blood pressure, the group adopted a new and greatly simplified code of ethics for doctors. Main departure from the old code was in brevity: instead of some 5,000 words, the new code sums up dos and don'ts in a mere 500. Dropped completely are...
...commercial firm in this country trying to improve its own commercial standing." The President's criticism jolted newsmen. The TV interview with Khrushchev was obviously enterprising, informative journalism, and in getting it, CBS followed the example of other firms which could just as easily be characterized as commercial. The New York Times recently front-paged an interview with Khrushchev by its managing editor Turner Catledge. At least twice since the war, Hearst newsmen have headlined Moscow interviews, one of them far more tightly tailored to Kremlin preconditions, and the other deemed worthy of a Pulitzer Prize to William Randolph...
West's books were virtually ignored, but for some readers they have long been collector's items. In the bland climate of U.S. letters, true satire rarely flourishes, but the chilling ferocity of West's satirical attack would be rare anywhere. It involves not only a total...
Its hero is a newspaperman-"Miss Lonelyhearts" is his only name known to the reader-who writes the lovelorn column for the New York Post-Dispatch. He is one of West's quasi-religious figures: "A beard would become him, would accent his Old Testament look." To the millions...