Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...random from a page of Joyce. Motherwell was not the only Wasp among the New Yorkers who created abstract expressionism, but he was certainly the most conscious of his puritan background. The son of a California banker, he perceived America as a land of constraint-the abode, so to speak, of the superego. Pictorial sensuousness was something one escaped toward-across the Atlantic, to an imagined Paris, home town of the Cartesian odalisque...
...Beadle confirms some cat lore and usefully corrects certain misconceptions. Every cat owner knows cats can speak volumes-especially at night on back fences. Few would guess that in human terms this vocalization works out to nine consonants, five vowel sounds, two diphthongs and an umlaut (as in the German...
...Saudis from spending money as quickly as they would like. But Nazir is making breakthroughs. One example: a crash program to improve the ports has cut waiting time for unloading ships from 90 days last year to almost zero. Says Finance Minister Mohamed Abdel-Kheil: "The textbooks used to speak of the need for land, labor and capital, but we have to add another factor: time...
...week's end the debate's outcome was still, so to speak, up in the air. What the lawmakers decide could, as the Sierra Club puts it, "strongly influence virtually every major environmental struggle in the next five years...
...know of subversion abroad in our land...It is subversive for commissions like these to spread such hysteria and intimidation throughout the land that Americans are afraid to sign petitions, afraid to read progressive magazines, afraid to make out checks for liberal causes, afraid to join organizations, afraid to speak their minds on public issues . . . this is the destruction of democracy...