Word: donee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conference, however, was too little, too late for a man who promised to be the "Education President." Yes, the conference acknowledged that adult illiteracy is a problem, but what should be done about it and, perhaps most important, who will pay? Yes, we must decrease dropout rates, but how and when...
...with all the country's problems at once." Many Soviet scholars regard the party bureaucracy as the main obstacle to reform and argue that Gorbachev, despite top-level housecleaning, has so far failed to sweep out conservatives and dead wood at the middle and local levels, where things get done -- or don't. Others say glasnost unleashed pent-up ethnic resentment. By attacking across the board, Gorbachev only produced confusion, resistance and rampant nationalism. Says a Foreign Office expert in London: "You don't have to be a Soviet conservative to think he should have exercised more control...
Picasso and Braque: Pioneering Cubism," which goes on view this week at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, is by far the most demanding show MOMA has ever done. Whatever one's stamina for comparing nuances of pictorial meaning, it will be taxed by this long sequence of more than 350 mostly small, mostly brown works of art that fill two floors of the museum through Jan. 16. This will be the array of Cubist evidence at which future scholars will look back. Curator William Rubin, director emeritus of MOMA's department of painting and sculpture...
...glass of the natural mineral water famous in the area, Stengach pours out his complaints. Says he: "We thought we would give him land to grow whatever he wanted. We wanted him to bring his own grain, tractors, herbicides and combines, so he could show us what can be done. As it turns out, he's a bezdelnik" -- the Russian word for loafer...
...sales of cattle, corn, sugar beets, wheat and other products. Yet mismanagement limits its progress. Dull cites as one example a "specialist system," requiring that people be trained to do only one specific task. Party officials, often without agricultural expertise, constantly monitor to make sure things are done as the party dictates. "Soviet farmers are accustomed to having Big Brother watching over their shoulder," says Dull. "So they try hard to make a field look nice on the surface. The result is that tillages may be done twelve times instead of once, and seeds are often planted when the soil...