Word: statement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seductions and qualities of materiel and its concomitant ethic. As for myself, I considered it necessary to evolve an instrument to aid in cutting through all such opiates, past and present, so that a direct, immediate, and truly free and human commitment could be achieved, and a responsible statement be made visible...
Simultaneously with his statement that the revolt was spreading, President Chiang Kai-shek offered Tibet independence if the Chinese Nationalists regain control of the China mainland...
Though a Deans' ruling says that "recognized organizations must maintain their local autonomy," making "all policy decisions without obligation to any parent organization," the Federalists are a chapter of the United World Federalists. Each year the Club "solemnly votes on whether to accept the national policy statement knowing that if we reject it, we would cease to be a chapter...
After Griswold's statement, Dean von Stade recalled the 1952 Pogo riots at Harvard, and observed, "I can laugh about a lot of things that go on around here, but riots are one exception. Whenever one occurs there is always the danger that someone will get hurt...
...Picasso at the Museum of Fine Arts make an interesting comparison. There is a Lehmbruck which is rather more elegant, more refined. There is a Brancusi fish which is more restrained. But there is also a Calder stabile which pursues much the same goals as the Picasso--a forceful statement of dramatic black shapes--and next to it the Picasso looks far more complete, more resolved, more dignified...