Word: starkly
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...whose "relational painting" derived from the style of Piet Mondrian; of a stroke; in Locarno, Switzerland. A disciple of Mondrian in Paris during the '20s, Glarner moved to the U.S. in 1936 and set about developing his own identity as a painter and muralist. Though he retained the stark primary colors used by his mentor, Glarner skewed the Mondrian rectangles in an attempt to make his work seem less static. He spent three decades in the U.S., then returned to Switzerland six years ago after being critically injured on the liner Michelangelo during an Atlantic storm...
President Bok's appointment last month of Arthur J. Rosenthal, former Chairman of the Board of Basic Books. Inc., as the new director of the Harvard University Press ended a six-month search that began with the firing of the former director and the stark realization that the Press might lose $500,000 in fiscal year...
President Bok's appointment last month of Arthur J Rosenthal, former Chairman of the Board of Basic Books Inc., as the new director of the Harvard University Press ended a six month search that began with the firing of the former director and the stark realization that the Press might lose $500,000 in fiscal year...
...contrast to the City Manager controversy, riddled with intrigue and shifting alliances, the city's opposing political and social forces stand in stark outline in the Superintendent fight...
Died. Admiral Harold R. ("Betty") Stark, 91, ranking U.S. naval officer at the time of Pearl Harbor; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Stark was appointed Chief of Naval Operations in 1939 by President Roosevelt, but after Japan's 1941 surprise attack, he was relieved of his post and transferred to command of U.S. naval forces in Europe. Though highly decorated during World War II, the Pearl Harbor disaster haunted Stark's career. Before his retirement in 1946, he was criticized by a Naval court of inquiry for failing to exercise "superior judgment" during the critical...