Word: procession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...altruistic, full of grace, all but perfect in their thoughts, acts and general conduct, alongside a people who are imperfect, who lack our wisdom, idealism, grace and near-perfect behavior, leaving us in a mess. Are we not in danger of losing all sense of proportion-becoming in the process a sort of humorless cry-baby of the Western world...
...mural, in ultramarine blue, cadmium red, titanium white and mars black, could be read as a simplification of the industrial process, with diced slices at the top working down through a pinball-machine principle to end in packaged products at the bottom. In fact, says Davis, the work is pure composition. The title Composition Concreète refers to "concrete music"-sounds recorded on tape, which is cut and spliced in patterns to make a composition. This emphasis is not surprising from Stuart Davis, who says that jazz is his greatest inspiration...
...influence to get a one-year moratorium on price and wage hikes. But the idea of a price-wage freeze got little support from the meeting's free enterprisers, who had no enthusiasm for urging the President to take such a direct hand in the wage and price process, even on a voluntary basis...
...technical ability. In these higher level seminars there is no place for the most intrepid undergraduate. The English and History Departments have already tightened the Ph.D. requirements, in an effort to give the GSAS student a more concentrated and individualized professional training. The Government Department, too, is in the process of revising its program. But whereas graduate training is made more rigorous on its higher levels, the conference courses remain static. Although both graduates and undergrads are nominally subject to the same requirements, the long paper, the research project, the extensive bibliography, and special examination questions are aimed...
Lawrence threw. The Man swung. The ball got past Redleg First Baseman George Crowe for a sharp single. For St. Louis fans, it did not seem to matter that the Cards were in the process of losing another game (7-3), that they lay moulting and mute in the cellar of the league. Stanley Frank Musial had hit in 14 consecutive games; he had pushed his lifetime total of hits to 2,986. Time might catch up with him before he came close to Ty Cobb's far-off collection of 4,191 hits. But this week, barring injury...