Word: presents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME, so this is not a complaint. TIME is entitled to its view about Hubert Humphrey even when that view is very irritating to Humphrey. But you have taken the liberty to quote me wholly out of context. Your article says: "Humphrey himself senses the public's present wariness of pie-in-the-sky liberalism. 'It's the most dangerous thing in the world,' he says. 'That's what happened to Stevenson.' " And then the article goes on talking about Humphrey being a New Dealer as if my mental growth had stopped about...
...comparing Russia in the time of Stalin and under the present regime, Elliott agreed that the country "has relaxed greatly" since then. During a previous trip to the U.S.S.R., Elliott spoke with Stalin. In light of his recent trip, Elliott says, "the people still look overburdened, but they showed their own genuine desire for friendship...
...Philip G. Pavia himself waves the new banner of forgetfulness, or "non-history": "Associating present sensations with past experience is normal and even necessary in everyday living, but such associations are poisonous in creating art. When the process of association fills the initial intuition with the pastness of dead data-stuff the impact of this intuition is reduced to that of general experience." intellectual confusion prevailing among painters springs partly from "critical permissiveness": "Our esthetic yardstick is geared largely to the novel. We expect the same kind of dramatic discoveries from our artists that we do from our scientists...
...guards in sight, and visitors often go home with a bit of the Classical Age in their pockets-usually a marble shard. It is possible for a traveler to ramble through this forest of fluted stone and broken stone bodies for hours without meeting anything at all of the present except himself, the burning...
After long debate, federal officials decided that Carbondale's unusual plight made it deserving of federal help. The present agreement makes the stricken city an urban redevelopment district. Two million dollars will come from the Federal Government, $1,000,000 from the state. Homes and other real estate in the threatened area (130 acres) will be-bought at fair prices. Then massive dragline excavators will attack the fire by digging huge trenches around the burning coal...