Word: riskier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are works in this exhibition, evidencing a complete gamut of preference, from an opus by Durer to American contemporaries. The latter might well be more in evidence than they are; but, of course, here one's decision is riskier. Matisse constitutes safer territory...
...showed such strength. Yet this burst of force probably grew out of frustration and disappointment. Castro was tired of waiting for the people to rise up to drive out Dictator Fulgencio Batista. Last week's attacks may well signal that his rebellion has entered a new. tougher and riskier phase. From the hills Castro sent word: "Until now we have spared the cities. But now we realize we must carry the fight to the cities as well as the countryside...
Eliot also suggested that the landscape architect start out on his own, and not with a large firm. "It is riskier, but you know very soon whether you can do it, and you learn more quickly...
...that values security, there is perhaps less security for the average creative writer than before. Says Malcolm Cowley: "I don't know whether insurance companies have tried to estimate the life expectancy of writers. Such figures, if compiled, might show that writing was one of the riskier occupations, comparable in its mortality rates with deep-sea diving, structural-steel working, and piloting experimental planes. A writer is always experimenting with new methods of soaring to heights or plunging into depths. He always has to struggle . . . and sometimes the fruits of the struggle are only exhaustion and discouragement." The struggle...
...that in a depression, with more workers retiring early, funds will have to take big losses to raise the cash they need. On the other hand, some critics feel that fund purchases are actually too conservative; too much of the money is in blue chips and too little in riskier, but better-paying issues...