Word: strictly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pound went on to deliver it practically verbatim from memory, was interrupted only once, when he was offered-and spurned-a chance to speak from his chair. From the first "crude attempts" at organized social control, he said, the law has gone through four stages of development: 1) the strict law, e.g., Roman law, composed of a set of completely rigid rules, 2) equity and natural law, insisting on reason and morality over mere rules, 3) maturity of law, based on equality of individual rights and recognizing property and contract as fundamental ideas, and 4) socialization of law, transferring...
Wyeth was a wildly uneven painter, swayed and disheveled by every wind that blew. His work shows every influence he met, from the meticulous refinement of his teacher Howard Pyle to the dashing violence of Frederic Remington, from turn-of-the-century impressionism to strict realism of the sort practiced by his son. His "easel pictures"-landscapes and figure pieces done for pleasure between illustrating assignments-were his worst. As some men can dance well only to brilliant music, Wyeth painted at his best only when inspired by a timeless tale...
...likely to anger foreign natipns -and raise cries that the U.S. preaches but does not practice free trade-is the fact that domestic sales, as the President himself noted, "have increased in recent years, reaching an alltime high last year." But despite this, domestic producers have campaigned for strict import curbs ever since 1949, complaining of low wages abroad and their own high costs. However, imports' total share of the market in 1956 was only 29%, and the "serious injury" the U.S. companies complained about amounted to barely an 8% increase in five years...
Berceo, a mystic poet, expressed the "absolute harmony of heaven and earth through exact poetical language," Guillen said. Within a strict rhyme scheme, Berceo described a world in which unity and order were maintained by Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary...
Through a Lattice. Among the least emancipated are the uncounted millions of Africa's "Black Moslems." By no coincidence, they are also the least developed politically. In Nigeria most Moslems are so strict they regard the rest of their co-religionists except the Saudi Arabians as backsliding apostates. Women are not even allowed in the presence of a judge; they must speak through a lattice in the wall to a court attendant, who relays their statements to the court...