Word: suggest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...temporary quarters, Majority Leader Scott Lucas reminded his colleagues: "Clay, Calhoun, Webster and Hayne in those days decided some very important issues ... I would not be surprised if history repeated itself." Just what this fine-sounding remark really meant was hard to say. Perhaps Lucas was only trying to suggest that since there were important issues still to be decided, Congressmen might possibly rise to the stature of Clay, Calhoun, Webster & Co. in meeting them. If that is what he meant, his optimism was understandably guarded...
Philosopher Joad especially deplores the technological-democratic tendency in education, which "seeks to enable a man to acquire a living rather than to acquire a life worth living." He advises "a return to . . . classical-humanism ... I would suggest that every student, whatever other subject he may be studying, should take . . . a compulsory course in the history and problems of philosophy, supplemented by the history of scientific ideas...
Back in Manhattan, Oscar Hammerstein II, co-author with the late Jerome Kern of Ol' Man River, was less enthusiastic about the liberties Robeson was taking with his classic. "I have no intention of changing [the lyrics] or permitting anyone else to change them," he said. "I further suggest that Paul write his own songs and leave mine alone...
...paintings on exhibition, only four were attributed directly to Leonardo. The rest, wavering between chill sentimentality and brown gloom, either anticipated or copied the Master's favorite tricks: chiaroscuro (strong contrasts of mingled light and shadow), sfumato (blurring of outlines to suggest space), geometrically involved compositions and ambiguous half-smiles...
...wanted to consider the case of an unidentified man who had left a sealed manuscript at his office with instructions that it was not to be opened without permission. During the weeks at home, Zoe fortified him with such cryptic postcard messages as "Quit biting your nails" and "I suggest you do more knitting." But Richard was up to more important things: he had finally made contact with That Man, his other self. That Man (also referred to as Mr. Doppelganger) had been troubling Richard for some time. He was the stranger who often walked just a few feet ahead...