Word: older
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intent on getting the Israelis out of Egypt and Gaza without losing the good will it has been trying to build up among the Arabs, was bound by its declaration that aggression must not be rewarded. The Israelis, invoking a theory of war older than U.N., insisted that victors earn spoils...
...that the shock treatment of the past abstract expressionist decade is giving way to gentler, more lyric works, with a pronounced shift back toward nature. But with this shift the artists are still clinging tenaciously to most of the impassioned painting discoveries and new-found techniques of the older abstractionists. Second and less heartening conclusion is that the horde of painters spawned by the G.I. bill and flourishing art schools has served mainly to swell the ranks of the second-raters, produced only a handful of individual talents...
...five-month period, can be viewed with interest from any direction (for the position in which Painter Beck painted it, rotate page one-quarter turn to the left). Her goal, to achieve "the effect of a new light," bound in from all directions, is ambitious, but she says: "The older generation had the real terror. They took the real risks. They had to break through. We are a generation of magpies. We are not taking the risks the way they did, and we are deceitful if we say that...
When the bomb went off, my wife sat up in bed and said, in a surprised voice, "My word! Another bomb !" Our two older children, aged 4 and 2½, were rather excited, but not unduly disturbed. We thank God that he did not allow the larger bomb to explode; the police said it would have leveled the house. We can take the bombs and the nasty phone calls and letters; we can take the insults and the stares. But please, we don't want people to think we've started to get panicky and to run away...
...program is sponsoring 16 freshmen and a number of upperclassmen. Among the upperclassmen, mirable dictu, there are many athletes. The committee works in close co-operation with the Admission and Scholarship offices here, and, from a list of 250 prospective Freshmen, selects some 20 to interview. Of these, about6Two older members of the Club relax in the first floor reading room...