Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...corpus of sculpture was of exceptionally high quality, and provoked a good deal of favorable comment. I had the impression that a larger percentage of the items were in traditional style than in any previous year, though some of the best were stylistically "progressive...
...reason for the $1.1 billion tradeoff between Air Force funds and foreign aid was that Air Force General Curtis LeMay, boss of the Strategic Air Command, had testified that the Russians will soon have a larger bomber force than the U.S. A more direct reason was that 1956 is an election year, and giving money to the Air Force is more attractive politically than handing it over to "foreigners...
From his father Eero learned two lessons he never forgot. One: "Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context-a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, environment in a city plan." The second, Eero learned one day when he went to visit a girl friend, leaving half-done at home his design for a matchbox-emblem contest. When young Eero asked to stay longer, he was firmly ordered home, told: "Competitions come first, girls second...
...Desegregation generally proves easiest where the Negro population is smallest, but there are such exceptions as the integrated schools of St. Louis, where Negroes are 35% of the students-a larger percentage than that of segregated Nashville. Richmond and Dallas...
Albers' squares within squares assumed an unsettling life of their own; the colors seemed to merge and separate again, the squares to grow larger or smaller. Like the optical illusions in a child's puzzle book, the geometrical figures began to dance oddly-shifting their places and changing shape right under the viewer's nose-demonstrating the power of life and movement in the most elementary forms and colors. "The concern of the artist," Albers maintains, "is with the discrepancy between physical fact and psychic effect." If that is not the only concern of most artists...