Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...classmates nicknamed him "the snake charmer" because of his ability to argue them into undertaking improbable courses of action in field problems. (He once got the members of his team to send hypothetical tanks off to the left flank, though everyone knew that this routed them through a deep swamp.) A British officer-instructor, less impressed with Kassem, marked him "sincere, hardworking, completely unbalanced...
...approach for an undue reliance upon "passive absorbtion" instead of upon active creation. As the 1956 Report of the Committee on the Visual Arts indicated, there is a valid and necessary place for such a verbal approach, but it should not be considered sufficient by itself to convey a deep understanding of the artistic processes--essentially non-verbal--which play such a widespread role in society. Along this line the introduction of the new Music 2 course in theory for non-concentrators in that field can only be welcomed as an example of another excellent non-historical method...
Born the son of a German wood carver in Manhattan's Greenwich Village in 1862, young Maybeck made his way to Paris, studied at the Beaux Arts, developed a deep and abiding love for all the great traditional styles. He treated them as a huge treasure-trove, to be dipped into as the artist's imagination dictated. He returned to the U.S. and moved to San Francisco, where he founded the University of California's architectural department...
...world is too much with them. La Alba's common touch has drawn deep frowns from the Queen, and to save Goya's neck, the duchess renounces his attentions and ships him back to Madrid. Feverish at the thought of her fickleness, he churns out the agonized, hellborn Caprichos. In the end, the lovers are briefly, sentimentally reunited at the duchess' deathbed...
...life and death of Leon Trotsky, a kind of Marxist Macbeth, have been made into a novel by U.S. Author Bernard (The Late Risers, In Deep) Wolfe, who was one of Trotsky's aides in the years before the inevitable assassin caught up with him in his Mexico hideaway...