Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...point which cannot and ought not to be disputed, but it is one which Epps has confronted only in agreeing to include Asian-American students in programs his office currently sponsors for Afro-Americans, Hispanic Americans and American Indians. In determining whether he should take even this step, Epps said he required an adequate mandate from the Harvard Asian-American community that this was indeed what it desired...
Opposition leftists are divided about the Premier's reforms. Some say that the measures Suárez has taken so far are too timid and want an immediate election of a constituent assembly. Others concede that the reform bill is a step toward the kind of free society demanded by the Democratic Coordination, an umbrella group that includes Communists, Socialists and left-wing Christian Democrats. But the organized left has boxed itself in with a public vow not to cooperate with any Spanish regime until the Communist Party is made legal -something that the rightists will probably be able...
...show's weakness is its monotony. Director Hoving, who was obliged to step in as his own guest curator when the Met's curator of 20th century art, Henry Geldzahler, refused to touch the show, has given Wyeth the kind of treatment that only major draftsmen merit. Each painting is surrounded by a flock of its studies and sketches that reveal the working method, the small adjustments, tunings and abstractions that come between the first view and the final painting. If Wyeth were Rubens the spectacle would be fascinating. But since he seems to work upward from illustration...
...from the sales of Wyeth catalogues and souvenir reproductions alone. To ram the point home, a boutique has been set up at the show's exit, and visitors have no choice but to run the gauntlet. Hard sell Hoving strikes again; and one sees another small but distinct step in the Met's transformation from the greatest encyclopedic museum in America into a grandiose West Side extension of Bloomingdale...
...replacement of the entire ceiling in 1969. But to little avail. In 1973, Hi-Fi Magnate Avery Fisher donated $10 million to keep the place going. Accordingly, Lincoln Center put his name on it, which was just as well. His money was used for the most radical step of all. Starting last May, the hall was gutted and a new interior built...