Word: strongest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cogency and sensitivity. The latter canvas happily succeeds more as a painterly statement than as a social comment. Its small size preserves at once its impact and its nuance. Advocacy can be carried off to advantage in the arts, but it has a way of corrupting all but the strongest. Some of Levine's much heralded larger canvases plead excessively where their business is to resolve. In this respect, a splendid containment and innate dignity comprise one major superiority of Bloom over his contemporary...
...Werfel had told him the true story from which the play was taken at Max Reinhardt's Hollywood home. "Also present was the composer Arnold Schonberg; they were all refugees who had lost everything to the Nazis, but they all laughed themselves sick. The capacity to laugh is the strongest thing in people...
...Senator Jack Kennedy. That best bet: 1) get himself identified in the Senate and on the stump as the favorite son of Midwestern Democrats; 2) challenge and beat Jack Kennedy in the Midwest in the important Wisconsin presidential primary; 3) fight hard for the well-heeled support of the strongest anti-Kennedy forces, those still hoping against hope for Adlai Stevenson...
...Administration's strongest case is against additional billions for public housing. Though the Senate wants 45,000 more units by 1963, and the House proposes 190,000 more units without a time limit, builders and city planners agree that the U.S. already has more public housing authorized than it can digest. Money has been appropriated for 110,000 units on which work has not even started. In Philadelphia, for example, 10,000 units have been authorized over the last few years, and 5.000 of them are not yet under construction. Cities are having trouble with rising costs and finding...
...Foster, his unbeaten streak now at eight for this season, will start at 177, probably facing Gene Roberts. Brown's strongest wrestler is captain Lou Winner, a 167-pounder who will meet the varsity's King Holmes. Crimson captain Joe Noble, his record now 8-1, will take on John Moyle...