Word: engulfment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nevertheless, a sense of discipline that never allows the picture to fail completely. Le Corbusier's canvases are two-dimensional. Along with Ozenfant, he was responsible for the creed of Purism promulgated about 1920 in an effort to preserve Cubism from the decorative tendency that was threatening to engulf it. The original impulse aimed at removing the literary art of Picasso and Braque to a more democratic level. Their concept was to dignify humble subject matter, objects like bottles and pipes that men everywhere knew, instead of bringing the uneducated up to the iconographic level of traditional...
...using homosexuality as a weapon against his family, which (unconsciously) he always hates. The analyst must not begin by attacking the homosexuality head on-or the patient will at once cry that he is being persecuted. Yet the analyst must convince him that his self-damaging tendencies will engulf his whole personality, if they have not already done so. There are, says Bergler, no "healthy homosexuals...
...schools, some of excellent reputation. The Engineering schools, the Medical School, the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, the School of Education, the School of Fine Arts, the School of Veterinary Medicine, the School of Social Work, the School of Auxiliary Medical Services, and the School of Nursing engulf the College and the College of Liberal Arts for women...
...Triomphe to release hundreds of tricolored balloons carrying the message of bonhomie. A squad of pretty girls scoured Paris looking for outstanding examples of courtesy, and that ancient charmer, Maurice Chevalier himself, cut a symbolic ribbon to release the tide of amiability that promised to engulf the land. Even France's bureaucrats were told to smile, but there was one breed of Frenchmen that not even Ranville's crusaders dared touch. A plan to present a prize to the politest French taxi driver was hastily dropped. Explained Ranville: "We would have wasted too much time looking...
...governments and peoples with whom I had contact," said Dulles. "They want to preserve their freedom and independence. However, patriotism alone is not enough. Small nations cannot easily be self-confident when they are next door to Communist China. Its almost unlimited manpower would easily dominate, and could quickly engulf the entire area were it not restrained by the mutual-security structure which has been erected. But that structure will not hold if it be words alone. Essential ingredients are the deterrent power of the U.S. and willingness to use that power in response to a military challenge. The Chinese...