Word: core
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...party's feelings, discontent is deepest among hard-core Tories. By his brusque, humiliating dismissals of leading ministers, Mac the Knife violated the most sacred tenet of Toryism: party loyalty.* Said one former government minister last week: "The Tory Party is a peculiar, organic thing of which you're either wholly a part or else never really of it. Even a Tory leader may not really be of it-he can use and be used by the party for so long as he's required, and then he becomes expendable. That's what happened with Churchill...
...number of major works of the past century form the core of the exhibition. Monet, Manet, Degas, Cezanne, Gaugin, Renior, Sisley, and Pissarro, and Toulouse-Lautrec are represented proportionate to their value on what must regrettably be called the art-historical market. Two of Monet's studies of Rouen cathedral are here, as is a small study by Manet after Valazquez, anticipating several later works. A self portrait by Van Gogh captures both the texture of the flesh and the introspection of the personality in precise but broad brush strokes moving inward towards the center of the composition. Van Gogh...
Working with him on the Loeb is a hard core for half a theatre enthusiasts, most of are also taking his course. are several others, however, "just drop in to help when they have the time...
...divided into 4.336 units dispersed throughout more than 2,600 U.S. communities. Technically, it has 27 divisions, but 21 are so poorly equipped and manned (50% to 65% of authorized strength) that they have little military value. For the most part, the Guard is composed of a hard core of devoted World War II or Korean veterans, plus recruits ranging in age from 17 to 26 who escape the two-year draft by taking a six-month tour with the Army, then return home to spend from three to 5^ years with their local units. Guardsmen "train" for two hours...
...character of Richard is the most baffling and complex one Shakespeare wrought before Hamlet. It scares most actors, though its very complexity ("Thus play I in one person many people, and none contented") offers extraordinary latitude of interpretation. The difficulty is to establish a unifying core beneath the many refractory and attitudinized moods on the surface...