Word: distinction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contrast, such personal involvement in all levels of the campaign is exactly what aides say Hart is trying to avoid. Campaign manager Oliver Henkel explains that Hart, himself McGovern's 1972 campaign manager, "knows from personal experience how distinct the roles of candidate and campaign manager must remain. You can't wear two hats at once," he adds. Hart tries to leave strategy and tactical decisions almost entirely up to his senior staff-"for better or worse, he takes all my advice," says Henkel...
Members of the Faculty Council argued that subsidizing MIT was distinct from paying the military establishment and that Harvard would not violate its non-discriminatory principles by helping to fond the MIT ROTC...
...elevated visual discourse and gave American artists heroic themes from their own history and experience. The second was the discovery of great space and, within its vastness, of unique nature. To this we owe the lucid, entranced sea visions of such painters as Lane and Heade. Theirs was the distinctive language of American luminism, with the surface of sea and sky like a membrane of pure contemplation, every pebble and mast distinct, caught in a kind of sacramental hush...
...terror and revenge occur so regularly that they seem to be scheduled into the routines of the world. They have become a way we punctuate our time. History unfolds as a sequence of detonations, a portion of the nightly news given over to psychosis. The scenes define a distinct style of politics in the world today, politics in a ski mask, violence dramatizing an unappeasable rage. Faceless, and morally depthless, the zealots crash truck bombs into their targets in Beirut or Tyre, go night riding with the Salvadoran death squads, or set the timers for the I.R.A. One sees their...
What Miró did with this fund of imagery after he moved to Paris in 1919 marked his emergence. Miró did not need groups. He became a surrealist because surrealism needed him; it had plenty of poets but no great formal artist (as distinct from vivid dream illustrators like Dali or Magritte). Even allowing for the recent rise in the critical fortunes of André Masson, the painter who introduced Miró to the surrealist group, it still seems clear that, as a draftsman and colorist, as an inventor of epigrammatic shapes set in exquisitely pure pictorial fields...