Word: sitters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Throughout this period, Mao remained a Man of compromise. Schwartz notes that he was a persistent fence-sitter and was unwilling to destroy potential rivals. Mao continued to organize the peasants while the Party itself lost more and more strength in the cities. As his power grew, Mao's conciliatory ways vanished: he murdered frequently to maintain control of the farm areas. In 1931, when the Communists lost all control of the urban sections, Mao took over the Party...
...there was nothing stuffy about Steer's view of his place in art. He told friends, "I have a third-class mind," answered praise by saying, "I muddle about and suppose something comes in the end." Of portraits he said, "It is merely a matter of giving [the] sitter the right amount of points-like a horse, you know." His own portraits lacked the distinction of his landscapes...
...portraits are generally of Fazzini's friends, carved as gifts to the sitter. Unflattering, they have some of the force and bite of the best old Roman busts. His apparent method is to catch a friend's fleeting but typical expression, as the camera can, and emphasize it almost to the point of caricature...
...type of old Whig nobleman, punctiliously honorable and high-minded." As Prime Minister, to the gnashing of Tory teeth, he pushed through the Reform Bill of 1832, set Parliament on its modern course as a democratic house. George Romney's portrait of him almost succeeds in characterizing a sitter whose character was not yet evident. He caught Charles Grey's idealism as well as his pride, conveyed both in the open brow, direct glance and faint curl of the lips...
Perhaps it is just that the country's college administrators have never been captives of television's mystery shows or "Television Baby Sitter." While commercial interests are doing their best to monopolize TV frequencies, not one college has positively supported the efforts of Federal Communications Commissioner Frieda B. Hennock to reserve some frequencies for educators...