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...President's most surprising, if scarcely most meaningful, proposal was his foursquare declaration in favor of a four-year term for Representatives. The present two-year term, said Johnson, caused Congressmen to "divert enormous energies to an almost constant process of campaigning." Although House members met his recommendations with a rousing cheer, there will be much debate about it in weeks to come. For one thing, Johnson's plan would bring all 435 House members up for election in the same year as the President-thus effectively canceling off-year judgments by the voters, who have frequently displayed...
...season when paintings have grown large enough to require flatcars for easels, and brushstrokes have turned into mighty walls of color bright enough to divert low-flying aircraft, a Lilliputian touch is welcome. Such is the mark of Italy's Gianfranco Baruchello, 41, whose works seem painted with a brush one millimeter wide to produce meticulous yet mysterious images that float across glossy white panels like microbes creeping from an infested imagination...
...actually has mixed feelings about the proposed tutoring projects. Although it would like to staff the programs, some PBH members have double about finding the necessary 150 additional tutors. PBH does not want to divert manpower from established programs...
...allow the technological age to alienate us from aesthetic experience. We can't look at nature without seeing beer cans. "Pop" and "Op" art have dominated the art market for more than two years; but they don't present a new trend. Instead, they undercut traditional artistic values and divert out attention away from aesthetic experience as a defense against this discomforting sense of alienation...
China opposes India, he said, because the Indian government is attempting to eliminate poverty by democratic rather than methods. External pressure by the Chinese forces India to divert poverty funds for the military effort, Nehru explained...