Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Control of Berlin. Longstanding U.S. view: the West has unimpeachable legal rights and moral responsibilities in West Berlin, which stands as an oasis of freedom in the desert of Communism. Macmillan view: some kind of undefined "internationalization," e.g., a bringing in of control representatives from neutral nations or a U.N. commission, may be possible. The U.S. still argues that any change in the status of West Berlin must be accompanied, at the minimum, by a similar change for East Berlin...
Simultaneously with his statement that the revolt was spreading, President Chiang Kai-shek offered Tibet independence if the Chinese Nationalists regain control of the China mainland...
...Johnson is strictly a control pitcher," Shepard said; "he can pitch to the corners; we used him largely in relief last year; and he is the smartest of the group.... Cook? Well, Cook has more stuff than Johnson--a good curve-ball and a pretty good fast one, too.... The others? Well, they haven't shown us a lot yet.... My gosh if anything happens to those first two follows (cook and Johnson), the games will last till after dark...
...prints of four of the Buddha's disciples. Here, Munakata's simple and strident forms recall Indian and Japanese Buddhist paintings, while suggesting the forcefulness of the best of the German Expressionists. Though the prints may lack the mystical introspection of earlier Oriental religious works, their clarity and technical control show how adept and proficient a master Munakata...
Certainly, all the cerebral activity here is given over to ingenuity and invention. The element of control is there, but it is innate, instinctual, the reservoir of all Picasso has learned and said. Precisely in this sense, and not in any spirit of license, The Bathers must be viewed indulgently as a Picasso. This is his domain, building upon a past he himself created. If he is making mistakes they are mistakes he has been careful to earn...