Word: freer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...collection on sale belonged to Mr. and Mrs. Adolphe Juviler of New York and Palm Beach, who explained that they wanted to be freer to travel. Their treasures were a choice, if uneven, selection of modern paintings, sculpture and drawings, and it had both Parke-Bernet's main gallery (white tickets) and TV annex (pink tickets) jammed to overflowing. The bidding was brisk: a curt nod, a quick wave of a pencil, an almost imperceptible gesture with a finger-the secret semaphore of auctioneering-would send the bidding up anywhere from $100 to $5,000. When the auctioneer...
Burton White, a leader of the San Francisco riots against the House Committee on Un-American Activities in May of 1960, last night condemned the House Un-American Activities Committee for "attacking the aspects of society which lead to a freer nation...
Radcliffe maintains a freedom that Harvard has lost, just as women's education has generally been freer to experiment than has men's. With an enormous Faculty as a basic resource, and the Harvard curriculum as a drawing card, Radcliffe has an almost unparalleled opportunity to work with residence, dining, and social patterns to extend the effectiveness of the Harvard model...
...Russian exemplars were socialist realism and bad. Interestingly enough, the Mexican exhibit consisted mostly of work done in the same style. Prints by artists of the satellite nations were considerably freer in style and some-what more down to earth by subject matter-many were very moving. And in the objective work of all countries there was considerable special comment, much of it favorable to the United States...
...European customer, buying some $1.4 billion worth of goods in 1960. If the British enter the Common Market, they will be obliged to cut their tariffs on what they import from the six continental partners by some 50%*-which will put U.S. goods at a new disadvantage. But the freer movement of goods, capital and labor within the Market will spur Europe's overall growth, and in turn stimulate Europe's demand for U.S. products and raw materials. Two key indicators: 1) the six member nations have been growing much faster economically since they formed their Common Market...