Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...collection of Rodin sculptures left to the Fogg by Grenville Winthrop. In 1965, a graduate student named Michael Fried wrote the introduction to the catalogue of the Fogg's 1965 Noland, Olitski, and Steela exhibition, and that essay has been highly influential in developing an approach to these flat, color-preoccupied, conceptual paintings...
...they do not want a part in the decision-making process unless it would help produce a transformation of the University into a new and independent force against the trends of today's society. This collective program--of turning the University into an entity for coordinated social good--falls flat because Harvard is not a political or even a functional entity...
...share, depending on share prices-but out-ot-state stock sellers can look forward to a 50% cut in the tax over a five-year period beginning in mid-1969. The new law also scraps a rising tax rate on big sales in favor of a flat $350 tax on those of 7,000 shares or more...
...great detective leans over the body on the floor of the overdecorated flat. "I think I'm going to be sick," says his young assistant. "No, you're not," the detective tells him. "Tense your muscles and take notes: nude Caucasian male, penis cut off and lying on floor, head crushed, multiple stab wounds, index finger and thumb of right hand missing...
...Step, Out of Date. Baldwin manages his set pieces well: a Harlem church service, the white world's Hollywood movies as seen through black eyes, a ghetto tenement flat on Saturday night. But the heterosexual love scenes are dry, joyless and dread-inducing, while some of the writing plays with trite truisms ("If you are depending on a guy for your life, you don't really much care what color he is"). The penultimate scene, in which the Negro star plays host to Barbara's white old-Kentucky-home family, seems to have been lifted...