Word: contact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...completely a child of abstract art. "Whatever interest I have in people," he once memorably told a reporter, "I have with them in daily contact. I don't want them walking around in my painting." Because of the extreme, not to say polemical, purity of his obsessions, Stella's work seemed exemplary. No young artist's oeuvre had ever been so exhaustively discussed, or used to support such a variety of critical positions. As a result, when enthusiasm for " '60s-style" abstraction started waning at the end of the '60s, Stella's prestige began...
...invading Israelis were greeted with enthusiasm in towns populated by Christian Lebanese, who hate the Palestinians and view them as occupying forces. At the same time, Israeli intelligence made contact with Christian Lebanese leaders in the north and asked them not to seize the occasion of the fighting in the south to launch new attacks against the Syrian army and Palestinian fighters in Beirut and the north; if they did, it might force Syria to respond to the Israeli invasion. The Syrians were disinclined to do so, since their forces are no match for the Israelis', but at week...
...Pentagon reports to demand a cease-fire on the existing lines of Oct. 13. We actually turned down both requests. When, however, the Soviet Union informed him that Egypt would agree to a cease-fire on the existing lines of Oct. 13, Kissinger was very pleased and contacted the U.S. delegation at the UN to prepare for this. He now wanted to make quite sure that it was so. He wanted to hear it from me. Kissinger had been told by the Egyptian National Security adviser in Paris early in 1972 that the Soviet Union had no power to speak...
...subcommittee of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) is seeking ways to increase the academic function of the Houses, in an effort to increase contact between students and Faculty, committee members said yesterday...
More teaching of undergraduates by Faculty members might not mean more informal contact between Faculty and students, however...