Word: grandly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visited synagogues and Jewish neighborhoods to reassure residents of his concern for their problems. Lindsay's lean, 6 ft. 3 in. frame, topped by the inevitable yarmulke, became a familiar sight in the outlying boroughs. The grand reception given to Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir led to the appellation "Meir" Lindsay...
...will solve them, that they need only keep the radical troublemakers from making more troubles and defer all power to the experts, the men on top who know best. (After all, they've put Americans on the moon.) The technocracy in the United States retains the security of "a grand cultural imperative which is beyond question, beyond discussion." That old spectre, 1984, seems only minutes away...
...Roxbury Municipal Court will hold a "hearing on probable cause" on the cases on November 7 to determine if the three should be brought before the Suffolk County Grand Jury. Homans said heis "pretty sure" that the Grand Jury will then hear the cases...
...talks of capitalism oppressing people. True. But nowhere in his grand design of liberation does he include these "oppressed peoples." Removing the oppressor is a very good idea but removing the oppressor does not necessarily liberate the oppressed. You talked of Algeria in some context, so let's look at it. Once the poorer people were ruled by the French. Now they are ruled by an Algerian elite. True, the colonialists were removed by terrorism and the threat of civil war in France. But it didn't change matters for the oppressed people. Instead of the instrument of oppression being...
...pair of rectangles in tandem. That commanding teacher Hans Hofmann preached what he called the "push-pull" theory of colors in tension-and practiced it to perfection. De Kooning restored the name of action to artistic thought, slashing at his canvases with inspired passion. David Smith took the grand gesture to sculpture, mounting one stainless steel shaft upon another in marvels of cliff-hanger balance. Later artists like Ellsworth Kelly, Kenneth Noland and Frank Stella solidified and emboldened color and clipped its ragged edges, while Morris Louis thinned his paints to the consistency of water and sent them streaming over...