Word: sink
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young realist painters, known as the "Kitchen-Sinkers," celebrate with gusto the seamy world of cluttered kitchen tables precisely because it is "common to everyone." It is a world in which the plumber is hero, being both "a craftsman and a necessity." A good part of the Kitchen-Sink work looks as if a plumber could have painted it, including some still lifes that focus hard on that hardy piece of English enamelware, the water closet. But at its best the new realism has the effect of a pint of bitter-tart proof that Englishmen can still face life with...
...this situation there is surely an educational problem, and Harvard's "sink-or-swim" answer may or may not be the best solution. But, without curtailing or inhibiting their freedom, students could be made much more aware of their responsibilities, both personal and social. As it is, Harvard students cannot be talked to, nor can they really be trusted. Fines, punishments, and policing are routine, and there is conspicuously no honor system of any kind at a College which has and does place so much emphasis on being a gentleman...
...Princess Joséphine-Charlotte and her husband, Prince Jean of Luxembourg. The week before, Adlai Stevenson had been playing tennis at St.-Jean-Cap-Ferrat. Moviemaker Darryl F. Zanuck and his good friend, Chanteuse Juliette Greco, were at the Hôtel du Cap in Antibes, where footfalls sink into deep carpets and almost no one goes into the water. Spain's Prince Juan Carlos handled a sailboat off Cannes; and a $215,000 jewel theft last week from the Cap-d'Antibes villa of a British textile millionaire proved the season a social success...
...soon to sink in arctic snow
...places." Before upcountry pagodas and in front of east coast mosques, he greeted crowds by crying Merdeka (freedom) and arguing commonsensically that "there is too much talk about differences of race, religion and class rather than about our similarities," appealed to citizens of Malay, Chinese and Indian stock "to sink our differences and speak about what is good for the country as a whole." His political rivals had narrower aims. The Pan-Malayan Islamic Party dreams of bringing Malaya into a "Greater Indonesia." Two small leftist parties formed a Socialist front and advocated the expropriation of all foreign holdings...