Word: utters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city, its palimpsest of styles and periods-as in the masterly View of Santa Maria Maggiore, with its jostle of medieval tower, 16th century facades and Baroque dome. He spurned atmospheric effects (even a puff of smoke, he once remarked, should be done with a line) in favor of utter concreteness. The most-quoted remark Ingres ever made was that "drawing is the probity...
Remembering his trips to Biafra in 1968, Dr. Mayer says, "There is invariably utter chaos in relief operations. Although a disaster strikes at least once every year, the relief organization in each case is dealing with tragedy for the first time. Political complications hamper American Red Cross operations, and the International Red Cross, which is a Swiss organization, is not equipped to provide massive aid. The Pakistani government," he says, "is the greatest ob-stacle to the East Pakistan relief operations. The United States, even if it wants to, can not send massive relief for political reasons. Reading between...
...reaction of Jewish faculty, students, and alumni at Harvard was, of course, one of utter horror. But he had not only alienated the Jewish community. Paradoxically, his actions in the Memorial Church Crisis caused a permanent rift between him and exactly the one constituency he needed to establish a viable control over the university-the old WASP families which hold the balance of power in the university...
...great goal in life is to be rich enough never to go to a restaurant." That would seem utter nonsense coming from anyone but Craig Claiborne, now in his 13th year as food news editor of the New York Times. So, with the royalties from five successful cookbooks coming in regularly, Claiborne last week notified New York Times Managing Editor A.M. Rosenthal that he was resigning ("without any animosity"). He will stay on until a replacement can be found...
...have destroyed the faculty which has supported the MAT program," Watson charged. "Next year it will be in utter shambles...