Word: sword
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...educating the public about the works in their collections. The ICA, concerned as it is with the art of the present, has no collection, nor for that matter does it have the space or the finances to maintain a collection. That, according to Ross, is a double-edged sword "Travelling without baggage is a bit scary," he says. "Without a collection, without assets, the ICA has always been in a fragile condition. Nevertheless, it means we travel light. We're free to respond to the most sudden changes in art. We can shift 180 degrees in days if we need...
...result was Bible and Sword, a history of the relations between Britain and Palestine from the Phoenicians to the close of World War I. Although the book took "six or seven years of very interrupted effort" and significantly longer to find a publisher, it eventually appeared in 1956. The experience taught Tuchman two things: that she could write history well, and that "I could not write contemporary history if I tried...
Eight thousand miles away, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher herself standing on shifting political soil, drew Britannia's rustling sword from its scabbard and let a righteous charge in the name of self-determination that lifted her national prestige to a level from which it has yet to substantially descend...
...financial allure of computer science has proved a double-edged sword for Harvard and other institutions. Combined with a relative shortage of Ph.D.'s in the field, it has made faculty recruitment at both the senior and junior level extremely difficult for almost all universities in the field...
Theater is a doubt-edged sword-the success of a production hinges as much on preparation as on creative intuition. Harvard theater tends to be long on creativity, but, all too often, short on background. In fact, the two should be intimately correlated, and informed creativity usually brings the beat results. Simply liking a script does not necessarily justify directing...