Word: depiction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Likewise, books such as The Organization Man depict the business world as a most unappetizing set of soul-sellings (how many students have read The Academic Marketplace?). Galbraith describes the businessman as occasionally impotent and occasionally interested in creating an attractive corporate image to bolster his ego, but seldom controlling his own destiny. In terms of attitudes like these, it is more comprehensible that undergraduates should regard the National Merit Scholarship program as a sort of apologia by businessmen who regret their selling out to the non-intellectual world...
Permit me to be the first to nominate the character who crawled out from under a piece of brotchen just long enough to take a quick look at Wiesbaden and have the unmitigated gall to depict the true life of "Americans Abroad...
...sales of astronomy kits alone up 25% over sales last year. Even babies can now get science right from the start: new, eye-catching mobiles, usually fluttery birds or butterflies, designed for cradles, have been given a scientific touch by Science Materials Center with its Whirling Worlds. Its mobiles depict the solar system, with the planets and sun all in relative proportion...
...whose big, modern airport today is one of the world's busiest. For coastal Nigeria the ages passed without written record until the late 15th century, when Portuguese adventurers sailed and marched up the creeks to Benin, whose 16th and 17th century bronzes (some of which depict Portuguese traders) are now among Africa's most treasured art objects. To the Portuguese-and the English who eventually displaced them-Nigeria's most valuable commodity was its people. Between 1562 (when Sir John Hawkins carried Britain's first slave cargo to Haiti) and 1862 (when the last Nigerian...
...then they were gone. This all took place between the creation of the Sphinx and the birth of Botticelli's Venus. The Egyptians could not know Aristotle, but he knew the secret of the Sphinx, for he laid down the basic dictum of all sacral art-"to depict the hidden meaning of things, not their appearance." It is easy, but incorrect, says Malraux, to think of the Egyptian tombs "as country houses in the Hereafter and the mummies as denizens of a world of never-ending childhood, buried with their toys of gold or clay . . . yet that 'country...