Word: soft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cool veranda, with its silvery curtains and pale green furnishings, is always a quiet and tranquil place. There is a soft, slurring sound of slippered feet from within, and an aide comes to attention: "The President." The man who steps onto the veranda is all in black-black skullcap, black Chinese gown, black felt slippers. As the President of Nationalist China stands bowing and smiling politely, the visitor notices the thin, angular face and skull, to which the years of adversity and self-discipline have given a sculptural distinction. It might be the head and face of a monk...
...head-on directness of Sivard's paintings (opposite), their flatness and deliberately stiff drawing, result in a naive, pseudoprimitive air. But Sivard is no primitive, as his clear, soft colors, neat compositions and elaborate use of textures demonstrate. He found what he saw charming, set out to communicate, in a quiet way, the charm he felt. Even Paris recognized its own reflection in Sivard's little mirrors. When his pictures were first shown abroad, the Paris paper Combat exulted: "What joy ... to find works like these...
...about it? The major goal of our foreign policy should be strained the relations, with the Chinese Reds; the more strained the relations, the better the foreign policy; and anyone who is sorry about this is surely a traitor. From Here to Shimbashi is a dangerous book for the soft minds of our youth; let it be burnt. JOHN SACK...
Nevertheless, there are some soft spots. One worry is the growing number of deceptively easy auto loans that helped push total auto credit to a record $10.6 billion in February. Finance companies have junked the traditional "one-third down and 24 months to pay," and some go as far as no down payment and five years to pay. Both banks and big finance companies such as General Motors Acceptance Corp. and C.I.T. have extended their terms from 24 to 30 months, and in some cases even to 36 months. So far, repossessions have stayed close to the low, prewar level...
...married state. Against it was: "Terrible loss of time, if many children forced to gain one's bread." But the advantages were pretty inviting: "Children (if it please God)-constant companion (& friend in old age)-charms of music & female chitchat . . . Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa, with good fire and books . . ." In 1839 he married firm, kindly Emma Wedgwood: "the perfect nurse had married the perfect patient." Among their many common bonds was backgammon. Darwin tabulated the results of all their games, so that towards the end of his life he was able...