Word: impetuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Humble Form. Given this predilection, it was only natural that Munch should ultimately turn to the simplest, most stylized artistic medium then in use -graphics. In the 1890s, lithographs were undergoing an artistic revival in Paris under the gifted impetus of Bonnard and Toulouse-Lautrec, while Gauguin was experimenting with the woodcut. Munch, in his turn, became almost as influential as they...
...Sentinel system was promoted by former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara as a shield against a possible Chinese nuclear attack. Critics of the system have charged that the $5 billion project will provide an impetus for building a far more extensive "thick" ABM system to shield against a Soviet attack...
...roll is basically a working-class, lower-class art form (all the greatest American music has come from blacks while the English groups are, nearly without exception, staffed by urban lower-class kids) and much of the working class is not interested in revolution. In America today the main impetus for social change comes from alienated middle class kids. Some of them, the musically inclined, turn to rock music, but they retain the musical values they were brought up with, those of classical music. No wonder that their rock comes out genteel, and cerebral, framed within long-drawn...
Miss Tolbert called the Corporation's position "counterproductive." She said that at this point she was "afraid that the impetus will have to come from Radcliffe to initiate coeducational living at Harvard...
...weren't as sharp as we could have been," he said. Not that Harvard was overwhelmed. "The point spread throughout was from one to five," the coach explained, "but we never could get the big play to get the lead. Then we made some mistakes which gave them the impetus and they built up the score...