Word: uses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...child who sticks with the drills long enough. No one yet knows, however, whether the bullying technique has harmful long-range effects on personality development. James Weddell, director of Purdue University's Achievement Center for Children, says some of his staff have been "appalled" by the indiscriminate use of force at the clinic, and he fears it may "tear some kids asunder emotionally...
...Sweeney is concerned, the explosion in the size of Francis' canvases is matched only by the growing exuberance in the artist's use of colors. In the early 1950s, Francis' dappled abstracts were tight, taut and somewhat somber, a reflection of his cramped environment in Paris. But in 1957, he took a trip around the world, stayed five months in Japan, established a new home base in Santa Monica Canyon, Calif. For him, it was as if the clouds had parted, and down poured a torrent of scattered forms and heightened colors. "Francis," says Sweeney, "has become...
...campaign for mayor of New York in 1965, he gave a speech to the police telling them how much they had been maligned by the press. Heavily criticized for his jocular references to questionable police practices, he did not back down a bit. "The police can't use clubs or gas or dogs," he said testily. "I suppose they will have to use poison...
...offending professors and exposed what he supposed to be their brainwashing techniques. The liberal academic establishment rose in wrath against this upstart. "As a believer in God, a Republican, and a Yale graduate," wrote McGeorge Bundy at the time, "I find that the book is dishonest in its use of facts, false in its theory, and a discredit to its author...
Separating fantasy from fact, the show juxtaposed a cosmetics consultant, urging clients to use a combination of five or six preparations, with a dermatologist who said that one or two would do. Of course, manufacturers know that-and so do women. But as Narrator McCutchen said: "How can there be a reasonable price for a dream...