Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...technical and visual material is generally more satisfactory than the philosophical. And arresting group of sketches, variations on John Willenbecher's "Nuit. Blanche," explain the artist's choice of a design. A note book of ideas which inspired the work is a disappointment, because it hints at the lack of meaning of the work for the artist--the lack of a forceful idea underlying the work itself. It seems the sculpture was inspired by Yin and Yang, cycloids and orbiting planets, hardly a coherent unifying idea for a work...
Knowledgeable lawyers note other potential dangers. Once the names of the Government's witnesses are made known, the defense may attempt to bribe them, or the Government may try to cow defense witnesses. Many defense lawyers also lambaste the reciprocity requirement. As Houston Criminal Lawyer William F. Walsh puts it: "Why should the defense have to disclose anything in advance when the burden of proof is on the prosecution...
...1930s, he and other moderate conservatives warned in vain about the growing Nazi threat; when he finally came to power in the spring of 1940, it was too late for anything except to preside over the fall of France -which is how Frenchmen remember him, though they might also note that he started Charles de Gaulle on his way with an appointment in 1940 as Under Secretary of State for Defense...
...York Times was not amused on four counts (the opera, the architecture, the decorative art, the opening night in general). But none of these four things are important compared to the miracle on 65th Street: for the first time in a Lincoln Center auditorium, you can hear--every note that the world's highest-paid orchestra and most celebrated singers produce...
...Fell into the Well; it is a memorable elegy to a family at its high point of felicity, caught at the moment before its dissolution. Yet the story is Updike's own; it is clearly his identifiably New Jersey-Pennsylvania family he is writing about, and the note he sounds is ironic; so far, he has left others to blow the tragic basses...