Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...general feeling was, however, that if the Council had full control, a drive run by P.B.H. would be a good idea. As one member put it, "people interested in charity gravitate toward P.B.H.; those interested in politics gravitate toward Student Council...
Main fact to emerge is that the shock treatment of the past abstract expressionist decade is giving way to gentler, more lyric works, with a pronounced shift back toward nature. But with this shift the artists are still clinging tenaciously to most of the impassioned painting discoveries and new-found techniques of the older abstractionists. Second and less heartening conclusion is that the horde of painters spawned by the G.I. bill and flourishing art schools has served mainly to swell the ranks of the second-raters, produced only a handful of individual talents...
With this purchase Niarchos, one of the richest men in the world, is well on his way toward becoming one of the world's great collectors. (His prize painting is El Greco's Pietà, for which he paid $400,000.) With town houses in Paris and Athens, a penthouse duplex in Manhattan, a mansion on Long Island, a London penthouse at Claridge's, a chateau on the French Riviera, a lush Bermuda beach residence and a 190-ft. yacht, the Creole, biggest privately owned sailing vessel in the world, Niarchos has acres of wall space, always...
WASHINGTON, March 10--The Navy is heading its nuclear submarine program toward a broad-scale production basis, aiming at an eventual rate of a half-dozen launchings per year. Figures made available by the Navy today show that at least three atomic-powered submersibles are scheduled for completion next year...
Thus the bill, as amended, should receive overwhelming non-Southern support. Since filibusters become more dangerous toward the end of a session, the main obstacle now is delay. Quibbles over words take time, and Southern Democrats are organizing their own dilatory tactics. Republicans and Northern Democrats should temporarily set aside their hopes for a complete guarantee of civil liberties to take one practical step in that direction...