Word: graving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Paradoxically, the Committee's own threat to take away the tax immunity of the large foundations presents in itself a grave threat of centralized education. With the Committee judging which foundations were supporting "Un-American" education, university faculties would have less control over the evaluation of their own research programs...
...Castries: "The Viets are everywhere. The situation is very grave. The combat is confused and goes on all about. I feel the end is approaching, but we will fight to the finish...
...sitting together on a fringed sofa, both playing the same guitar. Prelude is an idyllic rural scene, with meadows, trees and a clear blue pond; a graceful boy and girl are about to eat a picnic lunch. In The Portrait, Kasiulis mildly lampoons his own profession he shows a grave, bearded artist painting a mirror-like portrait of a model gaily dressed in red and green. All of Kasiulis' paintings are done in a technique that uses a jet-black-underpainted background to accentuate the lightness of the colors. And all his pictures, with the exception...
Over the week-end, the University secured an outside room for Bender. Closeted there, the Dean of Admissions began dictating letters. "Dear Sir: The Committee on Admissions has decided to accept your son, but has grave doubts . . ." Or: "After reviewing your son's secondary school record, we feel that we cannot accept . . ." Or: "Our conference with you last week was most satisfactory . . . Please find enclosed your certificate of admission...
...this decision he forfeited along with all other public figures his right to a publicity-free private life. It is no longer private because it has great relevancy to his public life which, unfortunately, is now of grave concern to the nation. Whatever is of concern to the nation is of concern to the nation's press...