Word: dubious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With critics who compare his slick, sterilized landscapes to picture postcards, fan decorations and candy-box covers, Artist Nichols has long waged dubious battle through a stream of open letters. Sample Nichols rebuke: "I still maintain that your reference to my tempera looking 'like a candy-box' is unfair to designers in the graphic arts. . . . Had you said that my painting looked like a bad candy-box cover I would not have objected...
...been surprised had she sold the territory short when the Federal troops were withdrawn at the Civil War's outbreak, leaving Tucson to be overrun by Mexican raiders and Apache scalping parties. But beauteous, powerful, 20-year-old Phoebe had Vision. "Right where ye stand," she told a dubious group of fellow Tucsonians, "right where this filthy, crumblin', ornery corner of hell is reelin' 'n' roarin' 'n' robbin' 'n' killin', there'll be a city-and wimmin 'n' homes 'n' streets...
...flourished for a while: selling the "genuine" Mona Lisa to rich suckers who were unable to squawk when they found themselves stuck with copies instead of stolen goods. French police last week expected the same thing to happen with L'Indifférent, put a close watch on dubious picture dealers, airports and trains. The Mona Lisa was gone for two years before they found her in the thief's home in Florence...
...relationship with the world is coming to a turning point. There is the possibility that by staying in the U. S.-where he wants to live-he may get the public to stop persecuting him as a hero. Although he is willing to try it, he is grimly dubious of the result. There is no cynicism in his still boyish makeup, but with the logic of a pragmatic mind he has dovetailed his experiences of the past twelve years into a picture as discouraging to him as the sound of a missing engine to a pilot in bad weather...
Unlike U. S. industrialists, who are worried about their markets but satisfied with their product, U. S. college presidents are dubious about their product, are tinkering with new methods of manufacture. Higher education is a rapaciously competitive industry in which small colleges compete for teachers, students and money with big ones, State universities with private, city colleges with country. Threatening the whole established order of higher education are two radical, current experiments: Stringfellow Barr's St. John's College in Annapolis, Md., which has a fixed curriculum of 100 classics, and presidentless Black Mountain College in North Carolina...