Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...efforts, Harvard can lay claim to more than a draw. All save the most fearless of its gambling partisans won their bets, and all save the most underhanded of the nation's newspapers (one thinks of the Yale Daily News) will surely see fit to play Cambridge well over New Haven in the headlines...
EVEN Mirko's telling of how he makes a sculpture could fit any of at least 1000 great and minor artisst today. There is material--styrofoam, bronze, wood, automobile parts, plexiglass, wood. Material tells you what is permissible--bronze cannot be translucent, while plexiglass makes Mirko play with its strange transparency. Uncolored plexiglass does not exist visually, until you cut it. So it is the elimination of material that makes the form, while the bulk makes a void...
...your very perceptive Essay, "The Difficult Art of Losing," you overlooked perhaps the sweetest sour grape ever uttered: On March 9, 1832, Abraham Lincoln said, "If the good people, in their wisdom, shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined...
...Democratic Institutions, argues that the present crisis in Catholicism stems from a disparity between theology and structure. "We have the structures which fit a theology that is no longer accepted," he says, "but we don't have the structures to fit the emerging theology." The new understanding of the church as an organic spiritual community implies a spirit of democracy; of shared authority. Yet it is the firm view of Pope Paul-backed overwhelmingly by the bishops-that the church was founded by Jesus Christ as an absolute monarchy, and cannot be changed without doing violence...
...always been as much art as science. In the early 20th century, China's splendid culture and baffling style convinced observers that understanding the Chinese meant first penetrating an "inscrutable" facade--empathizing with some elusive oriental essence. After 1949, the inscrutability became artificial. The communist revolution seemed to fit China into the categories of Western social science, but at the same time deprived students of the facts to support their generalizations. China was revealed to be a modernizing state and a communist state, but the bamboo curtain clacked shut to hide the hows and whys. China experts were left...