Word: deal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they had no special merit. "Stones in the street," Curtis explained last week, "may be millions of years old, but you can't sell them as art." Undaunted, the Folio family consulted one Charles di Renzo, owner of an electrical-supply store in nearby Rosemead, who made a deal to act as the Folios' "agent." Di Renzo and his brother Jay called in Amadore Porcella, an enthusiastic authenticator described as a Vatican art expert. Porcella ticked seven of them off as a Caravaggio, a Lotto, a Tintoretto, and some assorted smaller fry. (In Rome last week he denied...
...seen looking in its direction with the suspicion that perhaps that is where the body of ethics lies buried. His refutation of Plato's ethics, which tended to equate virtue with knowledge, is a case in point. Men who know most, suggests Russell (who knows a great deal), are not necessarily the best...
...face of these affronts to the honor of human reason, Russell looks wistfully at the philosophers of the Grecian archipelago of 2,500 years ago. Philosophy, says Russell, must continue to deal with "impractical" questions, such as the meaning of life ("if indeed it have any at all"), which few boys, fewer men, and-on the record-no women have ever worried about for very long...
...first two books in the nine volume study dealt with changes in the internal structure of New York; others will deal with the city's relation to changes occurring in the nation and the world. Next fall, Vernon's summary of the survey's findings, Metropolls 1985, will appear. "Our function is simply to inform," Vernon said. "We have found certain advantages in keeping normative notions out of our work...
...Khrushchev were to compare his position today with that of a year ago, he must conclude that the best way to deal with the West is to frighten," Henry A. Kissinger '50, associate director of the Center for International Affairs, told a Ford Hall Forum audience last night in a speech assessing the United States' position in world affairs...