Word: imprint
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True, Brazil today, along with most of Latin America, belongs to the Hispanic world--its peoples speak Portuguese or Spanish, call themselves Roman Catholics and bear the imprint of various aspects of Hispanic culture. This is a reality with which we must live, and Freyre's explanation of it on the basis of a "Messianic invitation to expand and complement their civilizations" does indeed point out the nature of Hispanic expansion. But to promote this kind of crusading in the twentieth century reeks of neocolonialism, and shows Freyre's basic misunderstanding of and lack of respect for the indigenous cultures...
Last season King's bronzes bore the imprint of burlap, which left his witty compositions wearing a woven look. This time he leaves out the bronze, just drapes the burlap over aluminum tubing frames. The gawkish, gangling figures-some of them ceiling-tall-would be funny sacks indeed if they didn't look so sad. Through...
...dividend: the respect and confidence of a wide swath of the U.S. business community, which recognized in Johnson a strong strain of prudence in economic affairs. From these successes-from out of the shadow of Jack Kennedy-emerged still a different, a bolder man, whose aim it was to imprint the Johnson character on the one year remaining to him as President. At Ann Arbor, Mich., in May, Johnson established the theme on which he planned to build his quest. The new goal for America, he declared, was to be called "the Great Society." Said he: "For half a century...
...orderly manner. His first painting, Razor, done in 1922, was a heraldic crossing of a safety razor and a fountain pen below a matchbox, backed up by angular cubist meanderings. Another painting, 6 ft. by 6 ft., showed giant watchworks. Portrait detailed Murphy's foot and its inky imprint, three true thumbprints, and a prototype profile of "Caucasian...
...fast fellow on his feet. Lodge also considered it poor tactics for the well-known Nixon to debate the lesser-known Kennedy. For another thing, Lodge urged Nixon to concentrate less on the South, more on the big industrial centers of the North and Midwest. Lodge also wanted to imprint some of his foreign policy ideas on the Nixon campaign, but he had trouble even passing them along, much less seeing the presidential candidate and talking things over. "Much of the time," recalls a Lodge aide, "we had almost no liaison with the Nixon camp...