Word: pious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spain showed 23 artists whose displays were chockablock with social comment. Most notable was Eduardo Sanz's walk-in Chapel for an Important Man, where altar and stained-glass windows were replaced by abstract, luxurious designs of plastic, glass, polished wood, seemingly a bitter jest at the pious pretensions of the rich. As for Marisol, usually classified as an American artist, she scored a triumph of nationalist and artistic politicking by exhibiting as a Venezuelan, thus getting a whole pavilion for 35 of her delightfully inimitable dolls...
...such an electric climate, anti-war feelings didn't prosper. The Harvard Pacifist Association counted 14 pious members, all Quakers and Jehovah's Witnesses. Even they did their best to contribute, as conscience and beliefs would allow--the CRIMSON noted with grudging approval, "They have offered themselves as subjects for study to psychologists who have been invited to attend their meetings...
...race even if there were no doubt that he could win the final running backwards. Why do rules mean something else in crew? Would these rules be bent as far as they were for Harvard if the boat in question was from Columbia or Brown? Or would those pious friends of Harvard rowing keep their mouths shut...
...related to the subject matter of this treaty, have jeopardized the supreme interests of its country," This serious loophole should be remembered after the treaty has been endorsed, when the Soviet Union and the United States join to clog the newspapers with what Indian Ambassador Trivedi has called their "pious platitudes...
...about the affairs already begun and negotiating arrangements for the next. Harold Smith tells of how he and "three of my most Republican associates" were having lunch when the news came. "Well, naturally everyone assumed that a right-wing crackpot had done it," he says. "We were all very pious and tut-tutty. Then young Ed called up absolutely ecstatic and said, 'Did you hear? It wasn't one of ours, it was one of theirs!' " And the party goes...