Word: grand
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...Good heavens! From where do you suppose came Matisse's grand sense of structure, the color and style of Gorky's early compositions, Moore's inflated, floating female forms, De Kooning's voluptuous women, and Bacon's double-faced images? The past 50 years of art are utterly unthinkable without Picasso's influence [Dec. 2], and I mean after 1914 as well as before. His work may still evoke "anger and adulation," but to say that "modern art would have existed with or without Picasso" is really going...
...administration, who served as chief examiner for housing programs in the Federal Budget Bureau and deputy director of the community action program in the Office of Economic Opportunity. » Thomas Hoving, 35, a New Yorker with a Princeton Ph.D. (in art history), who was a museum curator before becoming grand vizier of "fun city." Hoving has brought life and imagination to the park system as parks commissioner, recently took on the post of city director of cultural and recreational affairs to try to do the same on a wider scale...
...even small factories. The big problem, says Sidney Shiff, executive director of the New York Small Business Development Center, which screens and funnels loan applications to the SBA, is to "give people the self-confidence to go into business for themselves. You can't start big, with grand programs. But when neighbors see that somebody's made it with a new store, they'll try harder." SBA Administrator Bernard Boutin vows to try harder too. As a start, he has ordered his staff to "go out into the ghettos" and find more people who seem to have...
...parties can avoid stalemate, they may be able to tackle successfully some of the big problems facing Germany. Until now, no German government has ever had the two-thirds majority required by the constitution to overhaul the country's dilapidated political system. The grand coalition, of course, does. It will probably, for example, change West Germany's election system from proportional representation to direct balloting in order to stop the free-riding splinter parties from proliferating and to give the big parties a better chance to obtain clear majorities. The coalition will also have the opportunity to straighten...
Except for the black sky in the background, the photograph might have been mistaken for a composite of the scenic grandeur of Grand Canyon and the barren desolation of the Badlands of South Dakota. But when it was flashed unexpectedly onto a screen at a meeting of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in Boston last week, sophisticated space scientists and engineers recognized the terrain immediately. It was a spectacular closeup shot of lunar landscape. That photograph of the moon's Crater of Copernicus, said NASA Scientist Martin Swetnick, is "one of the great pictures of the century...