Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those of you who didn't know, a special showing of "The King and I" played last night at Blodgett Pool...
...youth, then it's all the more frightening because they don't even know what they're saying," she said...
CULTURE SHOCK. After a company is taken over, employees are preoccupied by a sense of uncertainty about the culture of the new owners. "You don't quite know their values, where they're coming from or what they really have in mind for you," says Walter Scott, who served as a director of Pillsbury and later ^ as U.S. managing director of its acquirer, Britain's Grand Metropolitan. "There are lots of inducements to start working on your resume." Scott is now a professor at Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management...
...want to know what painting is or can be, look at Velazquez. This has been the judgment of artists for the past 300 years. It is as though Velazquez has never been seen as anything but the summit of excellence in art, embodying a degree of intelligence, pictorial skill and lucidity of realization that defy not only imitation but, in some final way, analysis itself. He is to realism what Piero della Francesca is to abstraction. First Edouard Manet and then a whole succession of French painters from the 19th century into the 20th (not to mention English and American...
...moral issue involved here? Or is this simply a reflection of a pragmatic attempt by editors to echo the values and interests of their readers? And does it really make a difference whether Americans know about disasters elsewhere? It certainly does when it comes to amassing donations or building a congressional coalition for emergency relief. It also matters in a less material way because every social contract, from the tribe to the United Nations, is based on recognizing common human bonds. Whether the fault lies with news consumers or with editors who pander to them, the bell ought to toll...