Word: disregards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reveries by Night. There has been one big problem in appreciating Ryder's work: he painted with an utter disregard for basic technique. He piled paint layer upon layer, to thicknesses of a quarter of an inch, often returning to work on a canvas while it was still wet. He found it almost impossible to think of a painting as finished, frequently took back ones he had sold and com pletely reworked them. He called the process "ripening" and likened himself to an inchworm reaching out tentatively into space from the end of a leaf. "I am trying...
...Nations. In 1966, he retired to join the Council on Foreign Relations. In a 1964 book, The Age of Triumph and Frustration: Modern Dialogues, one of Yost's imaginary speakers sums up a diplomat's view of Realpolitik: "The hopes of international peace depend upon a firm disregard of the rights and wrongs of disputes, on which there can almost never be agreement, and on a purpose either to settle them by compromise or to ignore them...
...Some scouts say Kwalick will have to learn a bit more about blocking to become a real pro star. Sellers, the top college receiver this season, with 86 receptions, is a swift, shifty end already running the kind of pass patterns the pros prize. His strongest asset: "a complete disregard for personal welfare when going after the ball." A close runner-up is Jim Seymour, Notre Dame, 6 ft. 4 in., 205 Ibs. Though a few pro teams question his speed, one scout lauds his "knack of keeping his eyes on the defender and on the ball at the same...
...undertake the type of changes that COWI and Ethos seek would expose the administration to criticism from many of its students and alumnae. Only a firm commitment to change would permit Miss Adams and her subordinates to disregard the criticism. The past history of this Wellesley administration gives little reason to expect that such a commitment will be forthcoming
...cannot in good conscience plead for fair procedures, the elimination of discrimination and the right of free expression for black Americans when the N.A.A.C.P.'s leadership is so hypocritical and lacking in integrity as to disregard those standards in its own affairs...