Word: slant
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...distinguishing mark of such leading Pacific Northwest painters as Mark Tobey, Morris Graves and Kenneth Callahan is their ability to mix Zen with zest, give an Oriental slant to their Western vision. Now a major new artistic talent, who arrived at the East-West meeting point by a different route, has appeared among them. The newcomer: patient and painfully modest Paul Horiuchi, 52, a Japanese-born American who for years made his living as a railroad foreman...
...facts did not support such racist conclusions, and despite pressure from Southern editors, the wire services refused to give that slant to their reports on Northern school delinquency. Many Southern editors nonetheless echoed the Montgomery Advertiser's taunt that the real story was being suppressed by ''such deluded racists as the New York Times.'''' A widely distributed series of cartoons in the Nashville Banner derided "Mixiecrats" and "Bleeding Hearts," pictured the North's "objective liberal press" as burying delinquency stories on the obituary pages. When newsmen such as the Atlanta Journal...
...does some clever satiric tale twisting, makes the story turn a psychological handspring or two, tosses in talk of music and dancing, and includes scene after scene that Sophocles did without. It uses a legitimate method of getting out of a classical rut and taking a fresh modern slant. The result is interesting without being successful...
...plain, amiable Alta Haskins. In 1935 he enrolled at the now-defunct Commonwealth College, a Communist-front school at Mena (pop. 4,500) in the western part of the state. He stayed only a few weeks-long enough, he said later, to get a hold on Commonwealth's slant. It was also long enough to get him elected president of the student body...
Once upon a time, in the palm-fringed squares of Zanzibar, off Africa's east coast, where Arabs gather each evening to chat over tiny cups of syrupy black coffee, the talk was all of pleasant things, of rich crops of clove and cinnamon, of the fleets of slant-sailed dhows which each January drifted over to the island on the northeast winds and in April, when the winds changed, drifted back, heavy-laden, toward India and the Arabian coast. Zanzibar, in the words of one of its political leaders, was "a happy island"-its climate fine, its people...