Word: compacter
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...struck its immovable object. The portrait took 80 sittings to finish. It taxed Picasso's concentration to the limit, and the result was one of the few indisputably great portraits that he, or anyone else in this century, has produced: a densely sculptural image, hieratic and masklike, more compact almost than matter itself. Picasso's absorption of "primitive" shape (he had spent a lot of time with Iberian and Egyptian sculpture that year) was now complete, and the way to Cubism was open...
Second, it contends that athletics may have a serious detrimental effect of emotionally unstable individuals. "The personality of the athlete comes out of a ruthless selection process." The challenge of success and failure are compressed into a compact period of time, and many athletes are simply unable to bear the pressure of the selection process. And remember, participating in athletics does nothing to help them develop that emotional stability: it only creates the selection process for rewarding the fortunate...
...start a colossal national bargaining process. The Phase II machinery has been set up to force representatives of labor, business and "the public" to agree by Nov. 13 on rules governing wage and price increases. In effect, they will have about a month to negotiate a sort of social compact, which they will then have to enforce in item-by-item decisions on particular pay and price boosts...
...Compact or Conflict? The immediate danger to Nixon's program is the threat of a rebellion by organized labor. Union leaders have been invited to help draw up rules for wage increases, but they simply do not trust a Republican Administration to give them sufficient increases and are balking. If they pull out of the program, forcing the Government eventually to proclaim wage standards by fiat?and still more if they authorize strikes or work slowdowns to win fatter pay increases than the Government proposes to allow?the nation will not get social compact but social conflict...
...Somewhat Fickle. Ginger proved to be a more difficult target. Unlike Debbie, which was relatively compact and well formed, the latest hurricane was a huge, sprawling storm that lacked the classic, clearly defined eye and cloud walls. Nonetheless, Stormfury's planes made six successful seeding runs before breaking off the attack when Ginger turned toward the North Carolina coast. By week's end. as Ginger came ashore just east of Morehead City, causing some $1,000,000 damage, Stormfury's scientists had already begun studying data to determine whether the seeding had any real effect. Even...