Word: furthers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The main task of the museums, if they are multi-purpose, is to offer the same type of general art, scientific and cultural education that the Museum of Modern Art gives to its many loyal members. (This last Museum, incidentally, especially impresses Dr. Prakash.) If the museums are "art-museums...
The Modigliani is a famous portrait of an emaciated Jean Cocteau, a few basic colors and abstracted elements being used to establish space and volume with thin painting in places subtly suggesting further possibilities for the superimposition of planes.
Even his private advisers urged him to lay off. His Foreign Minister, Heinrich von Brentano, flatly contradicted his remarks on Geneva. Maddest of all, Ludwig Erhard demanded a public apology, but all he got from the Chancellor was a grudging brushoff. "Honorable Herr Erhard." wrote Adenauer in a personal letter...
In the House of Commons, Home Secretary Richard A. ("Rab") Butler was asked whether he was satisfied that Fuchs's "brain would be of no further use to the Russians." In the fast-moving world of theoretical physics, Fuchs is considered way out of date, so Butler merely answered...
For ten days, in San Francisco's Civic Auditorium, 1,000 delegates to the 44th triennial convention of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod labored to keep their closely knit conservative denomination (2,200,000 members) as closely knit and conservative as ever. To further both aims, the convention re...