Word: segments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leonardo was perhaps the most skilled painter who ever lived: he pictured bread on the table to seem near and crisp as bread on one's own table at home, and he could make even a little segment of sky as wide and mysterious as the sky itself. Beyond that, he could bind many different things, men and emotions into one unchanging harmony. The Last Supper incorporates all these powers, and more. It has been called, both in praise and dispraise, the most "literary" picture in history-and, overlaid with clumsy restorations, the picture did have somewhat the stilted...
...Mendes-France goes down, hopes for a vigorous France able to balance a resurgent Germany may sink with him. For victory will not go to the moderate Right--a long succession of do-nothing premiers like Pinay and Laniel have thoroughly discredited this segment. And since the French people also have little faith in the militant Gaullist Right, they would probably vote for a coalition of groups farther left than Mendes-France. Such a Popular Front would bring with it a defeatist, pacifist policy that would undo much of what has already been accomplished towards strengthening the West. Dulles' trip...
Citing the important effect the Court decision will have on opinion abroad, he examined the role of every segment of the American population in implementing it. "The story I should like most to stress for our foreign friends and visitors is that of the great army of the forgotten or even the unknown: dedicated people, who worked in obscurity for the education and the inner development of the racial minorities, particularly in the South...
...under conditions more trying than those which surrounded the installation of Nathan Pusey as President of Harvard. The University's basic decision in a matter vitally affecting its freedom from governmental control had been taken but had not yet been accepted either by the Congressional investigators or by that segment of public opinion which is more influenced by the vocabulary of professed anti-Communism that by the facts of the struggle for individual freedom. Harvard was under violent press and political attack by men who either misunderstood or misrepresented the nature of the issue and the realities of the decision...
...which small segment of the Bay Bridge do you refer when you say, "MK built the San Francisco side of the 4,62O-ft. Bay Bridge...