Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...studio in an alley littered with garbage and decorated with a sign that says: NO TOILET. Then out to the nearest gallery to see who's doing what. Everybody, he discovers, is doing violently chromatic doodles and calling them abstract expressionism. Timidly, he brings out his own slight, representational sketches-mostly of horses. The dealer studies them in obvious horror for a long time. "Marvelous," he says at last. "Horses, aren't they...
...that everyone seemed to be taking for granted that the recession has reached its low point. Government economists began nervously eying the quality of the recovery. Aside from a quickening of business confidence, they had a few definite signs to go by-a slight increase in steel orders, department store sales up 5% in Easter week, auto sales for March up 15%. Of the twelve leading indexes, e.g., raw-material prices, that the National Bureau of Economic Research uses to measure the business cycle, nine have already turned upward. Said Walter Heller, chief of the President's Council...
...some respects this book is a worthy sequel to Colonel Robert Baden-Powell's celebrated work, Scouting for Boys, but this is not necessarily a slight of its author. Bernard Law Montgomery, Field Marshal the Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, 73, would readily agree that Boy Scout ideals are what the world needs more of. It is disarming and somewhat startling to find a celebrated soldier, whatever the specific merits of his wartime role, writing without an ounce of embarrassment in praise of prudence, justice, temperance, fortitude, honor, courage and truthfulness. His aim is to define the na ture...
...skillful hand behind his sons' maneuverings for control of Al leghany. The Murchisons and their back ers have already bought 868,667 shares of Alleghany, plus preferred shares and warrants that could bring their total to 2,168,811 shares, thus giving them a slight edge over the Kirby camp, which at last count controlled a potential 1,944,687 shares. With a Texas flair for gambling, the Murchisons are clearly going for double or nothing. They will know if their gamble paid off when the proxy ballots are counted at the annual company meeting...
...President Kennedy has pointed out, the Constitution may pose a slight obstacle to the subsidization the cardinals desire. Some jurists, however, believe that the First Amendment can be interpreted to allow aid to parochial schools, since it is "indirect" rather "direct" assistance to religion. At any rate, the cardinals have come up with a legal dodge: instead of direct grants, they want long-term, low-interest loans. Whether or not the Supreme Court would accept such a device is a moot point...