Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nationalist leaders, and Great Britain, most respected of Western powers in the Near East, were on the outs. The Nazis, in fact, wanted it believed that His Majesty was so exasperated by British "broken promises" in the-Near East that hereafter Arab nationalists in general and Ibn Saud in particular would come to Rome and Berlin for help and guidance. Although a discreet silence was kept over what, if anything, Führer Hitler promised Khalid al Hud and vice versa, it was news simply that they had talked. When the German Foreign Office mouthpiece, the Deutsche Diplo-matische Politische...
When he had a story to tell, he gave it to newspapermen succinctly, clearly, with a photographic eye for detail and colorful incident. More than that, he was an authentic, native character. When he had done something worth while he smiled for photographers. Once, when there was no particular reason for taking his picture, he was asked to smile. As Calvin Coolidge might have, he asked: "At what...
...Four Saints m Three Acts. Yet Maurice Grosser's painting belongs to a school which is just what the doctor ordered for critics who carry on indiscriminately about "modernism" in art (see p. 36). Grosser owes nothing to conventional impulses yet is a firmly "representational," sensitive draftsman. His particular passion, however, is color. Exasperated, like other young perfectionists, at the chemical impermanence of certain modern ready-made paint, Grosser began some years ago to grind and mix his own colors, a process in which he has taken infinite pains. Result is a clean brilliance of color made luminous...
...report. At each meeting queries and doubts on many points notably on the proposed abolition of the assistant professorship--seemed at least as evident as signs of approval. No specific motions, however, were entertained. Each meeting was prefaced with the statement that votes would not be taken; and particular requests for a vote were refused. The sole effort to evoke or appraise opinion as a whole consisted of the statement, made at each meeting, that failure to declare objection by letter would be taken as constituting approval of all the recommendations...
According to President Conant's statement to me, it is his policy, in offering certain appointments without limit of time under which the appointee would contract to give a particular specified course, to stipulate that the appointee assent to a qualifying clause of the following nature: "If at any time you should decide that you are no longer willing to give such course, or if in the opinion of a competent group of men you are giving such course unsatisfactorily, you would then agree to resign your position and would terminate your connection with the University." President Conant made...