Word: unforeseen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Philip Guston: "Only our surprise that the unforeseen was fated, allows the arbitrary to disappear. The delights and anguish of the paradoxes on this imagined plane resist the threat of painting's re-ducibility...
What is the future of the honor system at Radcliffe? No one seems very worried about it. The major controversies seem to have been resolved, although merging with Harvard in activities affected by the honor system may conceivably produce unforeseen problems and eventual modifications
...like Adam's apple, Wesley's fig has an unforeseen side effect: it is an aphrodisiac. The late naughty-witted Thorne (Turnabout) Smith might have fashioned some of the priapic victories that follow. Countesses, nurses and simple country girls are figtimized. When the secret gets out, it is an affair of church and state. Charges of scandal and nepotism rock the Vatican. After a sly display of irreverence, Author Menen turns soberside to point an improbably tedious moral: "Scientists are, by and large, up to no good . . . We stand in danger of having our lives twisted, our souls...
...left-wing British Socialist who edited The God That Failed (TIME, Jan. 9. 1950), a damning indictment of Communism by former party members and fellow travelers. Taken on a conducted tour by the Chinese Reds, he was somehow persuaded that formation of the communes was actually "spontaneous and unforeseen by the State Planning Commission." Yet even the establishment of the far milder cooperative farms met with considerable opposition among Red China's peasants. In Kwangtung province alone 118.000 peasants and their families deserted cooperative farms in 1956. Peking itself admits that the establishment of the communes has produced "vacillation...
...Dispatch after he spotted Founder Joseph Pulitzer on the street, pretended not to know who he was, followed him for blocks trying to sell him a copy of the Post-Dispatch. Later, in his banking days, he was ready 24 hours a day to back a reporter's unforeseen needs (such as the price of a look at another man's cards), although some borrowers were "always casting their vile and rue" on him. "Heywood Broun put me out of business when he organized the Newspaper Guild," Sammy once observed. "The boys began making enough to tide them...