Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Linus Pauling and I are on opposite sides regarding the nuclear tests, but this does not detract from our respect for each other. I am enraged by your footnote re him. It is in keeping with McCarthyism...
...courthouse in California, picked up a pencil and began to write: "In the days when this courthouse was built, the law was young and often painful on this frontier. We developed in 1854 what our pioneers recognized, as did their forebears in the East, that there must be a respect...
...differences, however, are more significant. Klee is the depth and Kandinsky the surface. One rigorously defies tampering with; the other might be abandoned to the Freudian analyst without major aesthetic loss. It would be wrong not to mention, along with Klee, another painter whose work commands a similar respect, Lonel Feininger...
...with local literary attempts, the gap between aspiration and achievement is due, much of the time, to a basic inability to cope with the art's more fundamental and less romantic aspects, rather than to lack of capacity or imagination. The Adams House show, however, is encouraging in this respect. It reveals, more often than not, a concern with basic elements without which nothing is likely to progress...
Willard Midgette's woodcuts were chosen in the graphics category. The woodcut is a difficult medium as far as achieving any degree of subtlety is concerned, and Midgette handles it well. The woodcutter always faces the danger of producing a stereotype, and although Midgette's work suffers in this respect it also reflects a surety and precision which is highly personal...