Word: outwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Universal Theory. The sticking point, so far as the Chinese Nationalists were concerned, was the Russian insistence on Outer Mongolia, a Soviet puppet state carved out of the northern part of old China, and with few, if any, outward appearances of nationhood...
...collapse [of Fifth Century Athens] was only the outward and visible sign of the collapse of the individual character ... whose values are rotten with individualism," said Werner Jaeger in Paideia. This was caused by the failure of Homeric religion to overcome the centrifugal force of material success...
...great deal pleasanter to travel with respectable and well-behaved colored people," said the Charleston, S.C. News and Courier in 1885, "than with unmannerly and ruffianly white men." The doctrine of separate but equal spread outward from the western states of the South, however, until it gained the approval of the Supreme Court, in Plessy v. Ferguson...
...just above the water to memorialize the four chaplains, Nivola also went back to an early inspiration, the semi-abstract holiday bread loaves made by Sardinian women. For his motifs Nivola picked four common aspirations: the clasped hands of prayer, conflict of good and evil, family unity and the outward-giving hands of charity. Asked why he did not do the obvious and portray the four chaplains, arms linked, on the Dorchester's sloping decks, Nivola replied: I think TV or the movies can tell stones better. I wanted to give people something they could think about...
...outward appearances, the owner of Manhattan's Artists' Gallery was behaving last week like the Madman Muntz of the art dealers' world. On the walls of his Lexington Avenue walkup were hanging drawings by 204 artists. Side by side with relative unknowns were works by such top U.S. moderns as Lyonel Feininger, William Baziotes, William Cropper, Philip Evergood and Josef Albers worth up to $250. Each drawing was marked at a flat $25. The only hitch: on none of the drawings was the artist's signature visible, and the gallery refused to say who had drawn...