Word: drawning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These findings were drawn from a study of public attitudes conducted for TIME in mid-July by Yankelovich, Skelly & White, Inc., the New York-based public-opinion research firm. For comparison purposes, a similar study had been made in late April and early May. The report is the first of a series called TIME Soundings, which will monitor a number of political indicators as the country approaches the 1976 presidential election. (The methods and definitions used are spelled out in the box on the following two pages.) The report also provides a sharp profile of the America that Gerald Ford...
SOCIAL RESENTMENT describes those people who are extremely upset by recent trends in the U.S. The indicator was drawn from answers to questions revealing a sense that things are out of control, the country is changing too fast, ordinary people are powerless to change things, and traditional values have been supplanted by a new social morality that encourages pornography, permissiveness and handouts to undeserving people...
Aloof Abstraction. The material is mostly drawn from Italian museums and churches, and it has its gaps, caused by the inimitable pigheadedness of Italian art bureaucracy. Thus Ravenna would not lend the most important single Byzantine object in Italy, the 6th century ivory throne of Maximian. All the same, one could not wish for a better introduction to Byzantine influence in Italy-not only the works made in Constantinople and then imported or looted, but also the ones made by the artists of the Adriatic coast. All the canons of Byzantine style are there: the liturgical stateliness of form...
Though the plot is like a Ross Macdonald garden of sin buried and retribution delayed, the book resembles a conventional detective story only when Mark Smith's whim turns to parody. Like the two dozen other fully drawn figures who crowd the story, Detective Magnuson seems something less than real, and neither the reader-nor the author-is sure just how seriously to take...
...about the places at which he plays ("They must have had a goddaman artist out there with a lawn mower," he said of Pleasant Valley. "The fairways are eleven or twelve yards narrower than the ones we play in the U.S. Open, and on some holes, the rough is drawn right out into the landing area...