Word: discarder
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...personal convictions: the best modern art is just about as good as any the world has known. And he wishes U.S. artists would discard their inferiority complexes. "If an artist is from Europe." he says, "we in America immediately think he is superior. I have visited Rome, Brussels and Paris, and I think our American modern art has more vigor and fire and life to it." How would he go about helping U.S. painters and sculptors? "Ah,." says Father Lauck, with a missionary gleam, "It's a pity not more American artists are doing religious subjects. The sponsor...
...Majlis (Parliament) and boss of a gang of terrorists, who once pledged Mossadegh "my entire efforts." Fed up with Kashani's flirtation with the Communists, Mossadegh broke with him. Next, Mozafar Baghai, leader of the pro-Mossadegh Toilers' Party, got too ambitious, and joined Kashani in the discard...
...This week, in London, she is playing to packed houses and critical huzzahs in the title role of Bernard Shaw's The Millionairess. Written in 1935 when Shaw was a spry septuagenarian, the play deals with a forceful, bossy young woman who makes her own rules and discards husbands and lovers the way other people discard paper napkins. The play was considered indifferent Shaw and dull theater until Kate turned it into a personal triumph. The critics drowned in their own superlatives: "A blockbusting performance''-"A human hurricane"-"Conquest by storm"-"One feels as excited...
...anniversary was the most significant fact about last week's wary maneuverings between East & West. For Joseph Stalin in those 30 years has ruthlessly consolidated power in his own country, survived a catastrophic war, shown a genius for organization, an ability to raise up obedient lieutenants and to discard them at will, a talent for calculated and patient diplomacy and a flair for timing. Last week, at 72, the old pro was waging what editorial writers-using a habitual but meaningless phrase-called a new "peace offensive...
...Further, he argues, it is not sufficient to present an opponent's argument for him. You must allow him to present it in all its force and appeal, for only by this free and unhampered contest of ideas will we ever be able to choose the true and discard the false...