Word: diminisher
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...delay of Hartman's appeal has gone on long enough. Hartman deserves a hearing, a fair hearing, and yet Harvard seems reluctant to give him that. Perhaps the administration of the GSD is hoping that in a changing political climate, the Hartman case will diminish in importance until it is forgotten altogether. But it won't be, and to pretend it will can serve only to mar further the reputation of what is already Harvard's shoddiest graduate school...
...move his Detroit Lions football team to Pontiac, Mich., for example, and Ford Motor Co. is building a $750 million commercial and residential complex in nearby Dearborn. Both projects threaten to attract more businesses and people from downtown Detroit-a trend that Henry Ford II obviously hopes to diminish...
...Corporation yesterday approved the Bond Report which calls for Harvard to "join with other responsible institutions and collectors in an effort to eliminate or at least diminish the power of the black market" in acquisitions of artworks and antiquities...
That word again. Isolationism. Speaking at N.Y.U. last week, Lyndon Johnson denounced a "new coalition of isolationists, conservatives and liberals, who seek to diminish America's role in the world-for entirely different reasons." At another point he said: "We cannot just get up and go home. Telling a man to go to hell and making him go there are two different propositions...
...that anticipated the later Matisse in their schematization of form. But he remained stubbornly unaffiliated; even within the Symbolist group he was somewhat an outsider to the letter of their theory since, among other points of difference, he thought Gauguin's pictures "pedantic." Vuillard never allowed method to diminish sensation. "I do not belong to any school," he declared at 23. "I simply want to do something that is personal to myself." Six years later he described how "I never, in any context, think of my actions in terms of quality. Remember what I'm like...