Word: naming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Closing his statement to the faculty, Strand said, "Many men in Soviet Russia have died in concentration camps, or by other means, because they would not accept the untruths which Ralph Spitzer has chosen to espouse . . . Dialectical materialism! A better name would be dialectical murder. The case is closed to far as I am concerned...
About 800 students turned out then in one of the biggest student demonstrations of the year to name him as their Republican standard bearer...
This skein is thoroughly tangled from the moment Character Wylie comes down to lunch brooding about cancer and finds the botanist's wife, name of Yvonne, who is brooding over Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. Wylie quickly recognizes her as "a nice bitch . . . with a father complex" and wins her sympathy by telling her what unkind reviews TIME gives his books. Yvonne tells Wylie all about her experience in the conservatory...
...nephew: no relation to Author Wylie). His dank hair is trailing over his forehead. "I'm in love," he cries. "And the girl's a whore." Character Wylie, whose air of learned sang froid is notable throughout the novel, takes one look at the girl, name of Marcia, and makes another fast diagnosis: she is a raving nymphomaniac and wholly unsuited to a career of nuclear research...
...story of Matisse's own career clearly made him an example of the first kind of painter. Could he think of an opposite example? "Charity commands me," said Matisse with a smile, "not to name any artists who do paintings of the second sort...