Word: labels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris last week was an art show with a lofty label-"Masterpieces of the 20th Century"-and a thesis. Among the 114 canvases and twelve sculptures on display were major works by Renoir, Van Gogh, Picasso, Pierre Bonnard, Paul Klee, Marcel Duchamp and scores of lesser lights. The thesis: "Such cultural achievements are possible only in a climate of intellectual freedom...
...political parties the "plague of initials" will be of interest only to historians. The rest however is in the bright brittle Orwell style giving a good portrait of Orwell as well as of his time. Orwell was so peculiar to his age that Lionel Trilling calls him "virtuous". The label is a confirmation of Orwell's diagnosis of a sick world for an age so amazed at virtue is an age when nice guys always finish last...
...occasions" (reproduced here). The feeling has been expressed that this graph can be used to prove almost anything. Its inventor does not himself know what it actually shows but is certain that it might prove all sorts of things. The graph uses letters, specifically Greek letters, to label its parts in order to retain the maximum number of possible meanings and to give it that scholarly tone, so important when attempting to baffle a grader. Under no circumstances should this graph be explained in any more detail than is absolutely necessary, and preferably...
This is admittedly a progressive college. Unlike most such institutions, its students do not wince when tagged with that familiar and controversial label. Bennington girls are proud of the way they live and the way they learn...
...label for his "third position" between capitalism and communism: a kind of welfare state backed by police power which, in Perón's reckoning, adds up to "social justice...