Word: ideale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vegas, Hughes found the ideal money machine from which he drew funds for political contributions. It was the Silver Slipper casino, a gaudy gambling house located opposite Hughes' Desert Inn hideaway, which he leased for $4.5 million. From the Silver Slipper till, Hughes in 1970 withdrew at least $1 million for his personal projects. The money was in small-denomination, old bills, which could not be traced by tax authorities. Thus he could contribute to his favored candidates more than the $3,000 tax-free limit that prevailed until 1972. As the Watergate investigations later disclosed, Hughes...
...also to descend from necessity into sentiment, and, in a sense, from confidence into anxiety. Compared with the pressure of ritual meaning in the best Indian art, the search for a language of classical form and Roman gravitas conducted by the professionals who rose to commemorate the American ideal after the Revolution-Horatio Greenough, Hiram Powers and Thomas Crawford-looks curiously wistful. Hiram Powers' The Greek Slave was the first internationally famous work of art produced by an American; when it toured the U.S. in 1847 it created a sensation and people queued to see it. Yet today...
...added the "emotional" nature of the presidential search, as well as the urgency of making the selection, "makes this a less than ideal time to resolve" the issue of student input in university decisions...
...paintings like Braque's Still Life with Pitchers, 1906, would give way to the austerities of cubism. The demands of more legible structure and more com plicated feeling drew Matisse away from the style he had largely invented. As Elderfield notes in the catalogue, "Matisse's ideal voluptuous world only fully emerged when Fauvism had ended, and could only be created by renouncing that part of it he felt to be excessive...
Genes limit the range of human behavior and thus the kinds of utopia possible for man, but that fact is hard to reconcile with a utopian political ideal, Davis said...