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Word: despairs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...colors tend to get rather high in range and the structure collapses in places. The last Soutine is an excellent Portrait of a Lady in which the palette and brush are subtly used, the artist scaling his colors (somberly brilliant blacks, blues and oranges) to fit the mood of despair and keeping distortion to its minimal needs for significant expression (cf. the hands and head...

Author: By Michael C. D. macdonald, | Title: Summer Art: Prakash, Pearlman, Wertheim, Warburg, Kahn; Museum Director, Four Major Collections Visit Harvard | 7/9/1959 | See Source »

...Hungry Children." Painting their picture of American depravity, degeneration and despair, Soviet journalists used the propagandist's familiar technique of the half-truth and the fact wrested out of context. One recent article cited the high cost of U.S. medical care, but made no mention of compensating health insurance programs. The author also deplored the high tuition at Harvard, said nothing about tuition-free state and municipal schools, left the impression that only the children of the rich can go to college...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fair Play | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

Citation: "A courageous negotiator to whom we have learned to turn to redeem situations fit for despair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos, Jun. 22, 1959 | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

...Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Maurice Evans,an actor whose melodramatic technique is the living despair of the Actors' Studio, in a play, exactly shaped to the cut of his jib, about a British minesweeper captain in World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Jun. 22, 1959 | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

GENEVA, May 19--The West accused the Soviet Union today of trying to impose on Germany a peace treaty on the harsh lines of the World War I settlement at Versailles. French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville said it would "drive the German people to despair...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Foreign Ministers of Big Three Score Soviet Plans for Germany; Nuclear Weapons Talks Continue | 5/20/1959 | See Source »

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