Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. David E. Finley, 86, the soft-spoken South Carolina lawyer who was the planner and first director (1938-1956) of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; at his home in Georgetown. The idea, the money-and the first great collection for the gallery-came from Steel Magnate Andrew W. Mellon, who as Secretary of the Treasury in 1927 and later as Ambassador to Great Britain had taken on Finley as his most trusted associate. The enormous marble museum opened in 1941, and Finley persuaded other great collectors, notably Samuel Kress, Lessing Rosenwald and Peter and Joseph Widener...
...country. It achieves an urbanity of tone, reasoning conversationally with lawmakers and officials, and frequently surprises with unexpected insight. A bright, idiomatic tone has crept into the Times editorial page since Max Frankel became its editor on Jan. 1. He seems determined to modulate that Ugh, Big Chief Has Spoken voice of the Times...
Dresses must get snagged in closing doors. Pistols must slip maddeningly down trouser legs. Lines like Dick's complaint that he is not cut out for blue-collar crime must be spoken: "I have a white-collar mentality. I panic in the face of death...
...director of alternative services at the University of Massachusetts, and one of her programs involved working at Roxbury High. Their proven ability to work together, Grant said, plus her 16 years working in various capacities with Boston schools, were probably the reasons Harvard tapped her. Charles Ray, a soft spoken man, is unpreturbed by Harvard's strong influence in the project's direction. "Joyce Grant," he says, "has a better understanding of people in high school than anyone here, including...
...they are beavering away on a four-part, 50,000-entry supplement to the supplement, and they have just come out with Volume II, which takes the ever-changing language from H for "Haarlem" (a blue pigment containing alumina) through N for "Nzima" (an African language spoken in Ghana...