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...generation behind him. He was, in that way, a victim of orthodox modernist thinking-which tended^ to suppose that his art had not "evolved" beyond its representational purposes, toward abstraction. In the late 1950s, when Avery was 70 and at the peak of his talent, his prices were about one-tenth of Pollock's. (They still are, but Pollock's now cost millions...
...Palestinian sources indicated that at least 10,000 people, mostly civilians, had been killed through out Lebanon, while more than 300,000 had been temporarily or permanently displaced from their homes. In his meetings with U.S. officials last week, Begin hotly insisted that the true figures were about one-tenth of those totals. Estimates compiled by TIME's Jerusalem bureau, based on unofficial figures, military counts and spot checks at hospitals and combat areas, fell between those two tallies...
...with a neck and-neck race with teammate Grace de-Fries in the final stretch of the event. Straining with every available ounce of remaining strength, Stricker moved barely ahead of de-Fries-who had worked her way up to Stricker's shoulder-to eke out a victory by one-tenth of a second...
...One of the most exciting showdowns of the day will probably occur in the 1500, when Harvard's Jenny Stricker mets Cornell's petite Dorian Lambelet-McClive. At the indoor championship Lamblet-McClive outleaned Stricker to win the contest by one-tenth of a second, and she went on last month to become the national champion in the event...
When the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility held an open meeting last month to discuss investments in South Africa, nearly one-third of the 30 speakers at the forum were Law School students. Considering that law students account for less than one-tenth of Harvard's student population, the turnout was noteworthy...