Word: poses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rohe while they both were teaching at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Not until 15 years later did Mies permit a portrait, and then Weber had to sketch while the architect worked at his desk. The blue of Mies's habitual business suit pervades a shoulder-swaying pose as slashing as icy spindrift. Weber still does not know if his subject was pleased, but Mies did buy one of his oils and three drawings...
Questions of doctrine and ideology matter less to Jaguaribe than a "general understanding," a personal compatibility. He would rather make a friend than convert a capitalist. He is as amiable and unassuming as he is undogmatic. He invites his students to "pose questions;" he encourages criticism of his own views...
Sometimes Kudashkin asked for "background investigations" on people living on Long Island, and Thompson would "pose as an insurance man and question a man's neighbors and credit agents and so forth." Thompson met Kudashkin dozens of times-sitting in Thompson's oil truck in parks, beneath water towers, in railroad parking lots. Whatever Thompson's information was worth to Kudashkin, it wasn't worth much to Thompson. "I never even made my gas money," said Thompson...
...basically the answers from Atlanta are correct. They represent a rededication to ideals that have always had a place in the civil-rights movement. For students thinking of going South for the summer, the answers pose a challenge: to decide whether they are motivated by the romantic appeal of working in Mississippi or by a real desire to change the Southern political structure. For Southern Negroes, the answers given in Atlanta offer the best hope of meaningful and permanent power...
...Under Article 5, proposed amendments can be launched in only two ways: by a two-thirds vote in both houses of Congress (the only method successfully used to date), or by application of the legislatures of two-thirds of the states for a convention called by Congress to pro pose amendments. In either case, ratification comes only after approval by legislatures or conventions in three-fourths of the states. Ever since 1791, when the first ten amendments (called the Bill of Rights) came in at the starting gate, this process has yielded only 14 more amendments...