Word: interests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sing, says Valéry flatly. "Grace and obvious poetry were not his objective." In his drawings, he seemed almost wholly concerned with the truth of what he saw. "His dancers and laundresses were seized in professionally significant attitudes which permitted him to ... analyze various poses never before of interest to painters. He abandoned the beautiful, soft, reclining bodies, the delectable Venuses and Odalisques . . . But he was intent on reconstructing the particular female animal, slave of the dance, the laundry or the street. These more or less deformed bodies he forced into unstable attitudes (such as doing up a ballet...
With facts like these, Toy hopes to shame Delaware into action. Members' speeches, once buried in the back of newspapers, now make the front pages. Some school districts have taken an interest in trustee elections for the first time in years. Others have even voted to raise their own school taxes. Toy doesn't expect to lick the whole problem once & for all. Says he: "Interest will die down, and the schools will deteriorate. That will be the time for someone to start the cycle all over again...
...over the debts on the hotel. The new stockholders will pay Kirkeby $3,000,000 which "would take us many years to get through the present [renting] arrangement." Having paid only $187,500 on the debts, Kirkeby's company in effect will receive about 650% on its cash interest in the property...
McDonald stressed that the program must guarantee the absence of pressure or control on the part of the federal government on either student or college. It should be administered by state committees free from political interest. The only criterion in awarding scholarships must be ability, McDonald added. Safeguards would have to be employed against discrimination and the use of funds toward purposes other than originally intended...
Dunster and Lowell Houses have already shown interest in the league, he said, and attempts will be made in each of the other Houses to interest potential bowlers...