Word: maxed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Incredulous, New York Times Associate Editor Max Frankel asked a follow-up question that offered Ford a chance to retreat, but Ford lowered his head and charged into a trap of his own making. By his reckoning, Yugoslavia, Rumania and even Poland were not under the Soviet thumb. "Each of these countries is independent, autonomous; it has its own territorial integrity...
...Max Beckman, at Nielsen through...
...Goths of the charge that they destroyed Rome. The great city was ravaged, he writes, not by the barbarians in A.D. 410, but through imperial plundering in the 6th and 7th centuries by Byzantine Emperors Justinian and Constans II. Johnson also challenges the once popular thesis-of Max Weber and R.H. Tawney among others-that Calvinism helped nurture capitalism. In staunchly Calvinistic Scotland, Johnson notes, capitalism was long stifled. What did launch capitalism, he argues, was the decline of churchly power-whether in Calvinistic or Catholic states...
...best of the Newbury Street three-dimensional paintings will soon be superceded by a retrospective of Max Beckmann's prints (opening Oct. 2), and Graphics I and II, where Calder's print series "The Unfinished Revolution" remains til Oct. 18. print series "The Unfinished Revolution" remains till...
...committee members themselves seem less sure of the facts and much more ambivalent about the decision to drop the course than Byker implies. Max Hall, editor for the social sciences of the Harvard University Press and one of the six faculty members of the expository writing committee, said last week that he wasn't even sure whether the journalism option was being offered this year. "Although as far as I know," he said, "we've been moving in a direction of reducing 'specialized' courses...