Word: softer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just $15,000 threatens to impair the effectiveness of the decentralized Deans' office plan which Faculty headaches and dollars designed several years ago. If limited meals for tutors mean Houses working at limited efficiency, surely the University's budget can yield in a softer place. Famous and enriching educational customs should receive some form of budgetary precedence at Harvard, yet even a jump of several dollars in room rents would be a cheap price for restoration of unlimited meals for the tutors...
...appeasement." But Adlai Stevenson had not explicitly suggested any concessions to Communism. Truman and Eisenhower had both said that the U.S. would confer with the Soviet leaders if the circumstances offered any chance of progress toward peace. Stevenson's proposal could be read as advocacy of a "softer" approach or it could be read as a restatement of an old U.S. attitude. This ambiguity was appropriate in the leader of a party whose logical course at present is to wait and see what kind of trouble the Republicans get into...
There were some rather conventional heads; softer, less formal busts, mostly in terra cotta; small plaques, mostly religious in subject; two lead statues, Standing Figure of a Boy and The Bird Boy, both pseudo-Grecian, idealistic pieces. Outshining them all was a bust of Augustus John, a shaggy, forceful bronze that seemed like a quick-frozen hunk of the old man. Said Time & Tide: "A searching interest in humanity . . ." Reported Fiore: "Augustus said I was a master. He may have been a little tipsy at the time, but I think he meant...
Actually, a softer approach to Red Chinese membership in the U.N. has been indicated in the past by at least one member of the Eisenhower Administration. Wrote John Foster Dulles in his book, War or Peace: "If the Communist government of China in fact proves its ability to govern China without serious domestic resistance, then it, too, should be admitted to the United Nations." That, however, was written more than three years ago-before the Chinese Reds swarmed into the Korean war. Last week it was plain that the U.S. position was quite different...
...there were differences. Van Gogh had shown his actor full-face against a solid green background; the new one was a softer painting, a profile set off by gay bands of yellow, green and blue. The experts' decision: Vincent Van Gogh had indeed influenced the painter of the second Actor: it was a hitherto undiscovered work by his equally famed colleague and onetime friend, Paul Gauguin...