Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...communication signed by 15 Greek professors, authors and others commended TIME'S May 23 cover story on General Van Fleet and the current situation in Greece. The letter read, in part: "Since the whole truth about the real meaning of the struggle the Greek nation is waging has never been properly understood . . . your article was an occasion of bringing home this truth and making it known to all those who wish to learn what is really taking place in Greece...
...designer may never be found out until the day of judgment," Neutra goes on, "but if he supplies his victims with a daily round of tiny or coarse irritations, unwittingly or not, he's a menace. It's the little sore we overlook which later proves malignant. To be used to having a telephone pole in front of your view window does not make it wholesome. Bad acoustics can lead to shouting, and this calls forth an argumentative mood...
...were not worried about the investment. The resale value of Neutra houses has been demonstrated time & again. Real-estate agents never fail to insert the words "Neutra House" when they advertise one for sale. Says Neutra: "I consider myself literally conservative, dependable over the amortization period...
...married twice again; both marriages broke up quickly. He wrote: "All women hate Buddhas, maltreat, disturb, humiliate, annoy them, with the hatred of inferiors, because they themselves can never become Buddhas. On the other hand they have an instinctive sympathy for servants, male and female, beggars, dogs, especially mangy ones. They admire swindlers, quack dentists, braggadocios of literature [and] pedlars of wooden spoons...
...both groups, simple-souled, common-sensical Joe Lockman is a freak-"a stray bird of the cormorant capitalist species" who has somehow blundered into their nest. Similarly, to Joe, both purists and realists are crazy products of a U.S. he has never known...