Word: evens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...instigate repeal of the affidavit, Byse would appeal to the public and to the universities, not to the courts. He agreed with President Pusey that the NDEA, even with its flaws, represents a constructive change in the American attitude towards education...
Admittedly, it was an extreme rarity that Dilworth Waterby should even consider arising for Sunday breakfast. In fact, Dilworth had not seen a Sunday morning, a real one, since that unfortunate day in his freshman year when the Lowell House bells had accidentally rung three hours early...
...arguments, and the case for Sunday breakfast being served seemed to hinge on whether Sunday was the beginning or the end of the week. In Old Testament times, he knew, Sunday had been the beginning of the week, but perhaps things had changed with the Gregorian calendar... or even before.... And then, too, Dilworth hadn't been out of his room in a long time to talk to anyone. Anyway, in the last analysis, he decided, it was just a matter of attitude. Tossing his cashmere blanket to one side, he made up his mind to take a chance...
Dilworth recognized the voice. It belonged to the lady on the serving line who always tried for his tie with her ladle of gravy. So far, he had successfully fended her off, but she was becoming alarmingly accurate of late. Once, she had even managed to stain the fire dragon on his Japanese vest...
...earliest effort of Modigliani, Reclining Female Nude, relates directly to his sculptural experimentation in primitive forms, but even here, lyricism, his greatest gift, predominates. From 1911 to 1915, Modigliani was profoundly influenced by Cubist distortion of the human form, and most of his drawings from this period are unsatisfying. In oil paint, the vigor of his rough and somewhat arbitrary compositions is easily expressed but soft and hard graphite pencil on a thin, flexible paper cannot imbue them with the necessary conviction. The scribbly, hectic quality of a piece like La Francaise indicates the extent to which the Cubist treatment...