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...strict Calvinist schoolteacher, Mondrian began his art studies in Holland. In the Guggenheim show, we first meet him around 1890, painting talented but not remarkable brown Netherlands landscapes and still lifes. Though Mondrian came to detest nature, the flat horizons punctuated by vertical poplars and crisscross windmills gave him a set of predilections about form which survived through his career-immeasurably refined and philosophized...
...diminishment of civil liberties in the nation, and has already to some extent succeeded. This feeling is intense. As best I can tell, they mostly get this belief from their children, who absorb it in the atmosphere of the elite universities. But they believe their children, and in consequence, detest the Administration...
Abomination. If Spencer-Roberts hated and loved in successive elections, many politicians hate the idea of electronic spots even while they use them as heavily as their budgets allow. Goodell calls his own compressed viewpoints "ghastly things." Says Gore: "It's an abomination and I detest it," but he admits that he would not and could not do without it. Hart asks: "How the hell can you describe in 30 seconds why you think a volunteer army is necessary...
...Detest my baseness...
...about her are her clothes (They are described in detail every time she appears), her beautiful auburn hair, and the fact that she can't be had. He may love her for other reasons-but they aren't really in the book. After a while, I grew to detest Hal; and I certainly didn't give a shit what happened...