Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...order with which the Superintendent complied by stating the appointees' educational history and dates of appointment to the school system. He claimed that he had no recommendations, and Shaplin denied that the facts given could be considered real qualifications. The majority viewed the matter differently, and, in the opinion of some, may have complied with the technicalities...
...conformations of Anna's ears, nose and cheeks in relationship to photographs of the teen-aged Anastasia, the 83rd Civil Chamber of the West Berlin District Court at last reached a decision. In an impressive dossier of official documents, it notified Anna's lawyers that in its opinion their client was not the Romanov Princess, and had no claim to any part of the late Czar's estate...
...political mythology. Tory governments looked to him for "expert" advice on Asian affairs, and told the U.S. that its Asian policy was ill advised for ignoring Nehru, Asia's only true spokesman. Left-wingers saw in Nehrunian "noncommitment" an idealistic answer to U.S. massive retaliation. British opinion began to change when Nehru's U.N. delegates regarded a discussion of Hungary as an unworthy diversion from the serious business of condemning the Suez invasion...
Charles Van Doren sticks together, in the opinion of Critic Clifton Fadiman, because of his family heritage. "Charlie was brought up to be unconscious of the fact that he has an inferior or superior," says Fadiman. "Because of this, he never starts to press. The Van Dorens represent a tradition of people that is almost dead now, like Thoreau and Emerson. They have their roots in the 19th century. They are content and confident in themselves...
This considered opinion came from no Soviet pressagent, but from Alfred Barr Jr., director of collections of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, who took advantage of last spring's cultural thaw to go to Leningrad for the Hermitage's first big display of French painting. Beyond the show, Barr was permitted to see an astonishing cache of modern art stored away out of sight...