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...Strive for excellence," advise the authors, "and you never will be found in the sinks of pollution, and on the benches of retailers and gamblers...
...grated: "What damned business is this of a portrait painter? You bring him a potato and expect he will paint a peach!" Then the romantic spirit of the 19th century added its profound effect. Toward the end of that century, Albert Pinkham Ryder remarked that an artist "should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it. What avails a storm cloud accurate in form and color if the storm is not therein?" Extending that subjective spirit, Arthur Dove was painting abstractions on a Connecticut farm before the first abstract canvas was done by Wassily Kandinsky in Europe...
Between tours of the building and introductions to editors, students who attend tonight's meeting will learn that although they are entering a competition, they are not really competing at all--at least in the commonly accepted sense. Instead, they will strive to meet CRIMSON standards, and after a certain time those who have done so will be elected to one of the paper's four boards...
...regret on my part. Now, to say that I have been as successful as I hoped I would be in a great many directions . . . would be untrue. On the other hand, I am so constituted that I don't believe ever in giving up. I will continue to strive and struggle to apply what I think are conservative principles to the modern problems that we have so ... we will come to see the benefit of what I call the middle-of-the-road government...
...people from evil and suffering' . . . The double challenge of the mainland remaining unrecovered and our people therein crying out in vain for deliverance aggravates our sense of regret . . . My wife and I dedicate ourselves once more to the supreme task to which we are called and thus strive to be not unworthy of our upbringing...