Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...practice of checking with the American Bar Association before recommending a nomination to the federal bench; observers are generally agreed as to the notably high quality of the four Eisenhower-appointed Supreme Court Justices and the 131 judges named to lower federal courts. ¶Prodded and pushed federal courts toward clearing their swamped dockets, e.g., by recommending younger judges, by urging judges to halve their traditional summer-long vacations. ¶Won more criminal tax convictions than in the previous twelve years (2,272 against 2,260). ¶Built up an outstanding antitrust record, based not on penalizing growth...
...cunning of Joe Welch that ultimately led to McCarthy's undoing in the public eye. Toward the end of the hearing a caged McCarthy attacked Lawyer Welch's young associate for once having belonged to the National Lawyers Guild. Slowly Joe Welch turned to McCarthy and said, "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?" In one moment of silence, as the words echoed in millions of homes, Joe McCarthy was through as crusader...
Perhaps a significant difference between our age and the so-called "classic" eras, indeed, between any culture and another, lies in attitudes toward physical beauty. American life and letters are largely centered on sex, but the failure of contemporary art, especially public sculpture--for most sculpture has always been public--to find especial satisfaction and success in depicting the human form points toward a loss of feeling for the plastics of human beauty. What seems to intrigue us often is a sort of peeping-tom attitude, that seems to offer delight in a sort of pseudo-wickedness, yet is extremely...
...problems that he raises are the most important part of his essay. Most revealing are the changes in standards of beauty that he chronicles. The mathematical and detached nude of classical Greece decays with change in attitude toward the flesh, into the bulbous and ascetic shapes of medieval art. "The very degradation the body has suffered as a result of Christian morality served to sharpen its erotic impact. The formula of the classical ideal had been more protective than any drapery; whereas the shape of the Gothic body, which suggested that it was normally clothed, gave it the impropriety...
...well as giving its approval to the construction of a theatre, the eight-man group approved the recommendation for a Design Center. But it asserted that a new field of design to replace Architectural Sciences was not needed. Such a field "would go too far toward making pre-professional art school work a possible major," it said...