Word: surer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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HENRY KOERNER, 44, is one of the nation's best living painters,*but he has long worked in the shadows of two masters, first Giotto and then Cézanne. His latest work still shows their influence, yet displays a new and surer synthesis that is unmistakably Koerner...
...humbug, but Preedy's miracles, performed in public, have convinced a few. Syson sets out to stop Preedy, and the matter comes to court. Not only does Syson fail, but he begins to re-examine his own faith. Like Gary himself, he does not deny God, but finds surer manifestations of him in the ordinary give and take of life than in established religion...
When the common market idea first came up, the British saw a surer future in their own Commonwealth and held aloof from any such untried continental combine. But to safeguard their European trade stake, they cooked up a plan for a wider, 17-nation Western European "free trade area" which would include the inner six and would also start in business on Jan. 1. Last week, at a showdown meeting of representatives of the 17 free trade area nations in Paris, the French threw up such a solid wall of resistance that the British feared for their chances of keeping...
...after intermission. It warranted repetition, partly because the piece rests heavily on formal devices which are almost impossible to grasp on the first hearing, partly because it is an interesting and seldom-played composition, but mostly because the second performance was far better than the first. The orchestra seemed surer of the rhythms, and their initial timidity had entirely worn...
...knew what it was to feel exposed, and with that recognition came a surer sense of shared feelings. Said Macmillan: "There can be absolute confidence in an alliance only where all the partners are more or less at equal risk...