Word: developed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Aviv or Beirut? Nasser hopes, of course, that in a few years there will be no need for such antiquarian arms as tanks, ships and planes. Egypt is developing three brands of short-range missile-the 230-mile-range Al Zafer (Victorious), the 375-mile Al Kaher (Conqueror) and the 500-mile Al Raid (Pioneer). Linked with the nuclear warheads that Nasser hopes to develop or acquire, they might give him the upper hand over Israel, provided...
Stability v. Stimulation. What kind of life would Mark have with his father? "We believe it would be unstable, unconventional, arty, bohemian and probably intellectually stimulating," answered Justice Stuart. Although the boy "would have more freedom of conduct and thought, with an opportunity to develop his individual talents," Stuart went on, "we believe security and stability in the home are more important than intellectual stimulation." While his grandparents will be more than 70 by the time he graduates from high school, "the Bannister home provides Mark with a stable, dependable, conventional, middle-class Middle West background and an opportunity...
Harvard is saturated with various forms of independent study at all levels. Its seniors work alone on deep-probing theses. Juniors and sophomores have for many years taken closely supervised tutorials that involve no class work. Even freshmen are allowed to take ungraded seminars in which they develop their own study projects. And next fall Harvard (which has been vacillating between stressing electives and required courses ever since President Charles W. Eliot dropped nearly all required courses in the 1880s) will announce a swing back toward more electives for general-education freshmen...
What he discovered, said Matisse, was "something that was always the same and that, at first glance, I thought to be monotonous repetition. It was the mark of my personality. I made an effort to develop this personality by counting above all on my intuition. I said to myself: 'I have colors, a canvas, and I must express myself with purity.' " Once he had found his signature, he repeated it with joy. To those who criticized his variations on the nude and the interior, he replied: "No two fig leaves are alike, yet each one cries...
...speaking," he recalls, "I was leading a double life. At home, I was a different man. I loved the classics, but I knew I could wow any audience with De Falla's Fire Dance. I was too little involved in the job I had to do, which was to develop my talent." Then in 1926 he met Aniela ("Nela"), the handsome, honey-blonde daughter of Polish Conductor Emil Mlynarski. She was 17, he was 39. When he finally got around to proposing to her beneath the Chopin monument in Warsaw, Nela was doubtful. It seems that Rubinstein's lady...