Word: statement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...take exception to the statement in your article "Sculpture 1959" [June 15] that "artists have never been asked to do more than reflect the time in which they live." I resent that artists are viewed as sponges that simply soak in "our time" and spew it out on canvas. Artists have in many cultures been expected to produce and have produced art that depicts an "ideal state" of what ought to be. Today, there are artists depicting what ought to be, but they have no listeners among people who are aware of our times and acknowledge their awareness...
Aleksandr Yurievich Kaznacheev, 27, information officer for more than a year, walked into the U.S. embassy and requested asylum with a simple, eloquent statement of his circumstances and a fine command of English. Said he: "I desire a life of freedom, which is not possible for a citizen of the U.S.S.R." Talking with Burmese newsmen later, he said that "the main occupation of all the Soviet embassy staff in Rangoon is to spy," that Russia and Red China cooperate closely in espionage activities in Burma, but that "my personal opinion, based on my knowledge, is that the main role...
Then Herter walked over to a bank of cameras in the strong sunlight, read a stout statement on the 41 days of drab dialogue in Geneva. Said...
...second time* in his 6½ years in the White House, President Eisenhower called newsmen to a special conference in his oval, green-walled office. Lewis Strauss, said Ike, reading a statement that he had scrawled out in black ink shortly before, is "a man who in war and in peace has served his nation loyally, honorably and effectively under four different Presidents. I am losing a truly valuable associate in the business of government. More than this-if the nation is to be denied the right to have as public servants in responsible positions men of his proven character...
...sneering, "I know you don't like me. You never liked me." Then he demanded a loyalty pledge from the full Christian Democratic parliamentary caucus. Shaken by his thunder and his vast reputation, and frightened of a disastrous party split, the dissenters meekly voted ja, approving a statement that "by unanimous decision the party agreed to form a united front in defense of the Chancellor...