Word: foresightedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Gordon M. Smith, 72, foresighted director of Buffalo's Albright-Knox Art Gallery from 1955 to 1973; of a heart attack; in Buffalo. By boldly purchasing works by such contemporary painters as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns and Arshile Gorky before they were widely bought by...
- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary In a characteristically dire report, the Central Intelligence Agency has just warned of potential global upheavals "almost beyond comprehension." The cause of the chaos: climatic change that will trigger massive crop failures, drought and widespread famine (see ENVIRONMENT). In contrast to this augury...
When tough-talking Barbara Sizemore agreed to become the new superintendent of schools in Washington, D.C., in 1973, she made sure that her contract provided for a public hearing before she could be dismissed. She was remarkably foresighted. Two years ago, school board members praised the District's first...
BY FAILING to enter the situation at the outset as he characteristically has attempted to do in times of crisis, it appears Kissinger lost whatever initiative and leverage his reputation could have brought to the cause. All along Kissinger showed no sign of alarm or awareness to the potential dangers...
Sir / Thank God the rest of the world is finally being exposed to the humane influences of the foresighted Frederick Law Olmsted [Dec. 11]. Here at the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay (more accurately called "Ecology U."), students have been introduced to Olmsted's attitudes and influences for...