Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...done since). It was all part of a dirty plot to encourage the "commercial maneuvers" of the big art dealers, he said. He also wrote a letter to the press declaring that "It is simply ridiculous and injurious to call 'art' all these miscarriages of the human mind which are nothing but phenomena of decadence, impotence and incapacity...
...vengeance, using red streaks and dashes to represent strife, black for death, white for purity and blue for triumph. An eagle and a snake, which also appear in Mexico's flag, dimly inhabited the bright chaos. Struggling up past them into the blue was a pair of lonely human legs. To reflect the sunlight, Orozco had embedded bits of glass into the concrete wall, and added strips of bronze and stainless steel to accent his lines...
...last year Mel began equaling the fastest 100 yards ever run by Paddock (9.5). Then he squeezed out a mite more speed and equaled the world's record (9.4), first set by Frank Wykoff,‡ another old U.S.C. hero. Was it possible to pump more speed out of human legs? It was. At Fresno, Calif, this spring, Patton ran his unbelievable 9.3. His archrival, Lloyd La Beach, was only inches behind...
...U.S.C., the "world's fastest human" has a $60-a-month part-time job sweeping halls. With that and his monthly G.I. allowance ($90), Patton just managed to support his family, until Congress boosted the G.I. allotment to $120 a month. Says Patton: "We've got money to burn...
Judgments in Journalese. It takes a cool, mildly psychoanalytical, yet not quite Freudian view of the central character; it takes something of a doctrinaire, but not fully Marxian view of political events. It makes passing mention of the vices, mistresses and scandals of historic figures, as illustration of their human frailty...