Word: directness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there has been no direct censorship or expulsion of U.S. correspondents from Czechoslovakia. Will Lang, of TIME Inc.'s Berlin bureau, who covered the coup, cabled that before he left Prague his Czech friends had already begun to avoid him, saying it would be unwise for them to be seen with an American any more...
...bedroom walls. To the hasty eye, they might seem as inconsequential as a game, but Matisse himself is deeply proud of them. "Only when one has reached complete maturity and mastery of color," he explains, "is it possible to do anything like these. They might be compared to direct carving in sculpture-the same thing accomplished in color that Michelangelo did in stone. They are the result of my long career...
Around the Hollywood studios, everyone used to call quiet André Previn "the kid." But not any more: all of a sudden he had grown up. Last week, just before his 19th birthday, M-G-M assigned him to compose, score and direct the music for a $3,000,000 musical...
...yell at you, just kicks you in the shins and makes you get back in line." Not all Harlem teachers were so direct: many were hardworking, kindly people who tried to do their best. But the percentage of mean and ignorant teachers was high...
...stemming from a shared abhorrence of the idea of one man being in overt authority over an equal"); plumbing ("the symbolic and patriotic value of these adjuncts to sanitary and comfortable living has become so great that Americans in foreign countries tend to esteem these alien societies in direct proportion to the number and availability of these amenities...