Word: formals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unwilling to press the French too hard or too fast. Both Tunisia and Morocco, though nominally independent, are economically dependent on French subsidies to keep their governments operating, need time to develop their own resources and tax systems. Bourguiba says that he is unwilling to make any formal commitment to the West until his country is fully independent in fact...
Saturday the Squash team will fly to Cornell to play a breather match with the Big Red. Cornell is playing squash on a formal basis for the first tme this year and should offer no more than token resistance to Harvard's team, undoubtedly the strongest in the Ivy League...
...Andrew Wyeth can lay claim to being the most successful painter of his generation. He is the youngest painter ever to be inducted into the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters, and although his formal schooling during his ailing childhood never went beyond first grade, he holds an honorary doctor of arts degree from Harvard. Comfortably completing the picture of success is the fact that a full-scale Wyeth tempera today brings $8,000 to $12,000, and his watercolors, sometimes dashed off in 20 minutes, bring...
...Hopper's quiet canvases, blemishes and blessings balance. He will paint an ugly front stoop and the warmth of sunlight on it, or a sooty curtain stirring with the fragrance of an unexpected breeze. He presents common denominators, taken from everyday experiences, in a formal, somehow final, way. The results can have astonishing poignancy, as if they were familiar scenes solemnly witnessed for the very last time. "To me," says Hopper, "the important thing is the sense of going on. You know how beautiful things are when you're traveling...
When James became the University's first professor of Psychology in 1889, he began a fund drive to finance a more formal laboratory for psychological research. By 1891 he had secured $4300 for equipping the top floor of Dane Hall (since replaced by Lehman Hall) which the University had turned over to him for his work in Psychology...