Word: suggestive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British friends, this is a wasteful and luxurious system that only the richest country in the world can afford. I suggest it needs a tightening...
Solider and deeper were Epstein's statues of women, usually half-figures, in which the sculptor uses the set of shoulders, the modeling of collarbone and breasts to suggest personality. There was a beautiful, grave head of his wife, Margaret, a hollow-eyed, haunted Louise, a brazen, thick-lipped Isabel. His most recent was Elizabeth, and it showed Epstein at his peak: a silver head of a young woman with the air of one of Botticelli's beauties. "It is odd," mused the News Chronicle, "that the sculptor has suffered the odium of being called a modern...
...will help no one if the University simply restores last year's miserable ten days; fall reading period should be as long as spring's, which is currently thirteen days. To do this, the administration must cut five days somewhere, and we suggest that the end of summer vacation is the most worthy target. Returning one week earlier is not half as upsetting as missing out on summer jobs or cramming three week's work into one. Perhaps it is too much to ask the Provost to dust off his hatchet once more, but the present schedule makes a mockery...
John Foster Dulles fired back. It is "absurd," said Dulles, to suggest that Eisenhower was proposing war or "wholesale insurrection by unarmed slaves . . . There are countless peaceful ways by which the task of the Russian despots can be made so unbearably difficult that they will renounce their rule. That was shown in Yugoslavia. Prolonged unwillingness to try new methods in solving international problems is ... endangering our own safety as Russian conquests are being consolidated against us ... General Eisenhower's policies are the true peace policies . . . We can trust the man who won peace, rather than the man who lost...
...level, The Natural is a preposterously original and readable story about life on & off the diamond. On another level, Novelist Malamud juggles symbolism and cloudy language to suggest the tragic limitations of the average American dream. He is better when his creatures are playing baseball than when they are playing with the Big Questions...