Word: officialdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frequent forceful criticism of Iranian corruption and autocracy outraged Cabinet ministers and even members of the Shah's entourage. With equal bluntness he attacked the U.S. for "spoiling us little children" with massive military aid, accused Washington of doling out economic assistance without sufficient planning. For years, Iranian officialdom tolerated him simply because Ebtehaj was essential to the country's economy. As chief of Iran's Plan Organization from 1954 to 1959, he initiated the country's ambitious land and industrial development projects, hired such able foreign assistance as David E. Lilienthal's Development...
...pure joy that I am giving you, Brancusi had said, but whether he intended to or not, he was also taking ; subtle kind of revenge on those who had ignored him. Acknowledging his country s guilt, Critic Pierre Schneider wrote in L'Express:"In France officialdom has shown itself faithful to its old principle: too indifferent at the hour of discovery; too poor at the hour of consecration...
...Boston officialdom is not in agreement on the subject. City censor Richard J. Sinnott has announced that he will not seek to ban the twist in Boston...
...United States National Student Association calls itself nonpartisan, but its officialdom is outspokenly and almost unanimously liberal. Reason: liberals have entered more actively into campus politics and thus have been chosen as delegates to the annual N.S.A. congresses that pick the association's officers. Last week, during N.S.A. 's 14th annual congress at the University of Wisconsin, the liberals were challenged for the first time by that small branch of awakened activism on U.S. campuses-vocal, intense conservatives (TIME, Feb. 10). The conservatives arrived with a dream: getting control of N.S.A. At best, they mustered only about...
Returning last year, Selz hoped the officialdom would surrender the veto, but was disappointed. Then he got a bright idea. Selz simply asked two galleries in France and five in the U.S. to import the works he wanted. "As simple as importing Polish hams," he said. The rest of the display he gathered from a variety of shrewd U.S. collectors, including Pittsburgh's G. David Thompson. Manhattan's Joseph Hirshhorn, and the world's Joe Alsop, who bought early in the rising Polish art market...