Word: matter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was big talk in a city where voters are registered nearly three to one Republican. Said the Inquirer: "It was not a matter of being a Republican or a Democrat; it was a matter of trying to redeem the city from those who had sunk it in the mire...
Like most modern artists, Bacon is more concerned with technique than subject matter; textures trouble him particularly. "One of the problems," he mused last week, "is to paint like Velasquez but with the texture of a hippopotamus skin." That problem alone, as even a fool could plainly see, might require the destruction of another 700 canvases...
...such a world, as Hutchins saw it, education had been split into specialized fields in which chemists could not speak to lawyers and hardly anyone was speaking to God, in which everything was a matter of opinion and each opinion was as important as every other. "It has become the fashion," he once told his students, "to be bewildered...
...while it seemed as if he might not last even that long. In the midst of the furor that followed, one dean guessed that if they had ever voted on the matter, nine out of ten professors would have voted to oust him. But somehow, the vote was never taken...
...case the result of this contest is just about as unpredictable as the fall of the half-dollar they'll flip at midfield at 1:45 p.m. This is more than a mere football game they play today; it's a matter of institutional honor