Word: owed
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Picasso's effect on the sociology of art was in no way less radical. That restless inventiveness provoked in collectors the expectations about stylistic "turnover" that, now built into the market, are such a strain on more single-minded talents. It is to Picasso that we owe, in no small way, the oppressive image of the artist as a superstud that only now is coming under attack. He has even had a degree of political effect: Guernica, the mural canvas he painted in protest against the fascist ruin of Spanish democracy, is certainly the most disseminated work of political...
...right to property is set up within society," Kelman asserted. Democratic socialists believe that men are products of their environment, he said, and owe a large portion of the success they achieve to others. "Thomas Alva Edison could not have gotten along without the contributions of all sorts of others who were less talented," he said...
...best of all possible worlds, no dour Diogenes straining for a glimpse of an honest man by lamplight. This guy is as slyly glib as a carnival barker, as horny as Portnoy, as resilient as a trampoline. Yet he knows Shakespeare's prophecy for Everyman: "We owe God a death...
...hitches. The authoritarian dimensions of black separatism at Harvard has produced widespread academic malaise among Negro students. The source of this malaise is the deep-seated emotional ambivalence and instability that black solidarity behavior creates among Negro students in regard to their place at Harvard. To whom do they owe basic loyalty? The demands of black-solidarity forces, or the academic, intellectual and success-oriented processes of Harvard College? This gnawing ambivalence is experienced by all but the most individualistic Negro students and the casualty has been their academic performance...
When she recovered, she hired Lawyer Edward Bennett Williams to file a million-dollar suit against the actor. "If Sinatra had attacked me as a reporter I would have taken it, but he attacked me as a woman," said Mrs. Cheshire, a mother of four. "I feel I owe it to my children to sue. I'm square enough that virtue means something...