Word: fining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after taking more than a month to write a decision that required seven hours to read (with time out for two tea breaks), the judge delivered his verdict: guilty of failing to take "reasonable steps" to verify the stories. Pogrund's sentence was suspended; Gandar paid a $280 fine rather than spend three months in jail...
Pulling the Plug. Clifford's idea, Nixon told the Senators, was really not withdrawal at all, when the fine print was examined. Though more than 200,000 ground combat troops would be taken out by the end of 1970 under the Clifford plan, about 300,000 men in ground, air and naval support units would remain indefinitely thereafter. Without infantry protection, they would be prey to the enemy, totally dependent on South Vietnamese units. This approach is unacceptable to Nixon on both military and political grounds. The implication was that, except perhaps for token remnants, the Nixon plan amounted...
Tanner never did win great acclaim at home during his lifetime. But now Washington's National Collection of Fine Arts is about to correct the oversight with a retrospective of 80 paintings, drawings and studies that range from a pastoral done in his student days to a Return from the Crucifixion completed before his death...
Tanner enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where he studied between 1880 and 1882 under Thomas Eakins, who helped turn him from landscapes to genre scenes. The Banjo Lesson, done in about 1893, is typical in its unsentimental, robust honesty. Tanner's first one-man show, in Cincinnati, failed to sell a single picture to the public. He sailed in 1891 for Paris, where he must have seemed rather prim to the rowdy French art students who studied with him at the Academie Julien. Thanks to his Methodist upbringing, Tanner refused to touch wine at first...
There is a fine Gallic impudence to the notion: take Robinson Crusoe, that age-of-reason parable of Western civilization's triumph over rude nature, and turn it upside down. In this position Crusoe's diligence, rationality, racial pride and Christian ethics-the very qualities that in Defoe's handling ensured Crusoe's survival-get lost while Crusoe accepts the "primitive" values of his black manservant. Call the book Friday to make the irony unmistakable. So much for Western civilization...