Word: spells
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doing some slick ball bandling and Borchard at forwards, and either Lynch or Bill Danner, who turned in a strong performance against Holy Cross, at center. Besides Kelley, no other player has seen action thus far, but Wilson might go to his bench for sophomore Gene Augustine to help spell the backcourt...
...tackle made in 1932 by All-America Guard Vaught that left both the ball carrier and himself lying senseless on the field. "I'm a fundamentalist," Vaught says. "I believe in perfection of execution, in the blocking and tackling angles of the game." Signs spotted around his office spell out his football philosophy: "Put 'em on the ground...
Doctors also have been sued for failing to spell out risks. Notes one recent decision: "The plaintiff may expect his claim to be upheld if he avers that his right to make his own decisions, based on the nature of his disease, was thwarted by the doctor's concealment." Earlier this year, after a Kansas woman suffered burns from radioactive cobalt therapy for her breast cancer, her physician was judged negligent-even though the treatment was skillfully performed-simply because he failed to tell her there was a risk of radiation burn, and therefore, said the court...
...filled his paintings with balloons, banners, swans, and outlandish animals that he simply made up. But for all the fun and fantasy, he was breaking new ground. Though he had abandoned the realism that dominated U.S. painting, he was too much of an individualist to fall wholly under the spell of the impressionists. He agreed with Gauguin that form existed not in nature but in the mind, and that form and color had a life of their own quite independent of subject matter. His apparently cluttered pictures were actually delicate mosaics in which color was used for its own sake...
...resolution did not last long. In time she fell under the spell of the late Arthur Dow, whose art classes at Columbia University were breaking new ground in the U.S. "Art," Dow declared, "is decadent when designers and painters lack inventive power and merely imitate nature or the creation of others." Driven by this distaste for the conventional, Georgia began experimenting with shapes and colors that had nothing to do with subject. Or, shifting from the abstract to the representational, she would paint a single flower again and again to find new facets of truth. These early experiments became...