Word: establish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Divine. The revived interest in Mondrian has revealed that before he became a dry, ascetic perfectionist, he had an intense, emotional youth remarkably similar to the early years of another great Dutch painter, Vincent van Gogh. Like Van Gogh, Mondrian had a strict Calvinist father, early sought to establish spiritual contact with Holland's rough peasants, underwent a period of religious fervor that nearly swept him into the ministry. Mondrian, too, was a painter of the Dutch farm countryside, who gradually increased the intensity of his colors until they glowed with slashes of crimson, cobalt blues and rich mauves...
...establish a precedent for U.S. courts, Leon's Boston doctors went to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, allowing themselves to be named as defendants, the Masdens as plaintiffs...
...globe, sends out captured specimens of the enemy virus to 46 nations. In more than a dozen laboratories- including those of the U.S. Public Health Service and major American drug firms-virologists are at work, with techniques as fine and occult as those of cryptographers. Their purpose: to establish the virus' precise identity, pinpoint its strengths and weaknesses, prepare a defensive vaccine...
...Class of '32 also had ideas, and early in November it became the first freshman class to establish its own governing body. The nine representatives of the four freshman dorms met under the chairmanship of the Student Council, and elected W. Barry Wood as its head. The Council had just discovered that it had a $1,500 outstanding debt, and so it was happy to be able to do something to give it some favorable publicity...
Picasso's cubism radically affected the course of modern art, but it is now clear that it failed to establish itself as the Grand Manner of the 20th century. As an apparatus to carry the full weight of modern man's deepened and often troubled sensibility, it has proved inadequate. Picasso himself, no man to cultivate the hinterland after exploring a new area's boundaries, pushed on, leaving a generation of less gifted painters to work laboriously through its implications...