Word: earn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yangtze River, and Mt. Huang (known as "the eye area" for its geographical appearance and importance to Chinese art) split into two groups, according to their acceptance or rejection of the patronage of the art-collecting emperors. The scholars and "amateur" painters (those who did not earn their living by their art) were freer to develop individual styles than were the members of the court academy, who worked in the imperial cities. The former, often political exiles, lived and painted quietly in the hills. Ironically, this behavior brought them veneration and fame--and as this happened, these innovators became institutions...
...Single people who earn no more than $15,000 and couples who earn no more than $17,500 would get a permanent income tax reduction totaling $4 billion a year...
...failed newspaper reporter, the awkward courtier, the relentless reader and overheated connoisseur of painting and music. As for the public burgher, he too is shown in seedling form, as an honorable 19th century fig ure who believed that there was some thing disreputable about a poet who did not earn his own living. It is only upon examination of the spark gap of fact into idea, or material into metaphor that the author is helpless. "I cannot explain the leap from juvenile verses to Sunday Morning, " she concludes, "but we have seen many intimations of its coming." Those intimations...
Once again, PhD.-to-be Landsman came through. Ironic, isn't it, that a scholar about to earn his doctorate would call Jackson Browne's hit "Mister, My Eyes...
...said he found the mental tedium of a typical eighteen-hour day on the job agonizing. "You sell your soul to ALYESKA when you go to the 'line'," he said. But Faulkner acknowledged afterwards, "I'll probably end up going back there next summer, because where else can I earn that much money?" Looking at one of his paychecks, it is not difficult...