Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bombing could be considered further escalation of the war, he pointed out to reporters that it was the North Vietnamese government that had originally militarized the zone by sending in troops. "The chronology of escalation is based on the fact that they keep coming," he said. "What we would prefer is that they send some negotiators to Geneva. What we want are some people in striped pants, not people in uniform...
Bored by Nudes. The older students present administrators with a few new problems. They may drop out for a time because they prefer to winter in Florida. One cut classes for a brief time because she had "to take care of an elderly lady." Retired Army Captain John A. Short wanted to take a woodcarving class but had to pass an introductory art course first. It included sketching live nudes-and it bored...
There are, of course, still a few diehard Thoreau types who prefer to catch up on their writing or sample the sweet joys of summer. Closed up in his Newfane, Vt., summer home, Harvard Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, 57, reports that he is dutifully turning out a new book "one dreary page after another." University of Virginia Professor J. D. Forbes, 56, a specialist in business history, is flying kites and writing detective stories while on a visit to his married daughter in California. So long as they are encouraged, even pressured, to fly jets, it seems likely that fewer...
...rating of the top ten of his time (at the time of his death he was virtually unknown), but cultural polls have their points. Every five years, France's Connaissance des Arts polls connoisseurs with the question, "Who are the ten living painters whom you prefer today?" The 86 replies from a mostly European group of critics, curators, dealers and historians yielded more than 200 names. The result was actually the top 13, since No. 1 was declared hors concours and there were two ties. The list...
Painterly Walls. The art inside is abstract, brutal and sober. Spanish artists prefer to call their work "informalist." Zobel inveighs against the impression that Spanish painting is "exaggeratedly tragic, a lot of King Kong beating on the chest." Says he: "There is Spanish restraint, absolute control of material, unsentimental romanticism, if you like, but none of this Germanic flopping around the deck with tears streaming...