Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...critics cold. For his recent Manhattan show Dali personally grabbed the limelight by mugging with his wax-bean mustache, but his work drew a bouquet of cabbages. His smooth-as-melted-ice-cream paint surfaces reminded one critic of "old miniatures painted on celluloid." Other critics deplored the "vacant trivialities" in the show...
...exact opposite situation in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. While University Hall ponders which candidates to admit from the swelling number of qualified applicants, Farlow House is forced to hold down the size of the GSAS simply because there are not enough top quality applicants to fill vacant places. At a time when the size of the Faculty is growing, the number of graduate students has actually declined...
...brash and brave young revolutionaries. He eloquently supported Tito's break with Stalin in 1948. His official biography of Tito so closely reflects Tito's thoughts that it reads more like the dictator's autobiography. "I love my country," said Dedijer, "and I love Tito." Vacant Home. Last week, still an eager Communist, Vladimir Dedijer found himself suddenly a pariah. His old friends cut him. His official car was taken away. His house-one of the hard-to-get good ones in Branka Djonovica Street-was without heat, and word went around Belgrade that it soon would...
...nondenominationally representative student group, led by John M. Coffee Jr., editor of the "Scribe," had presented Pusey with a statement asking that Dean George H. Williams be appointed to the post--now vacant for almost a year...
Real-Estate Juggler William Zeckendorf is a man who likes to "turn peanuts into bananas." Last year, hoping to turn the trick again, he started work on a $35 million hotel and department-store center on a vacant plot in Denver. He soon ran into trouble. The plans called for a 1,000-car underground garage, but when Zeckendorf's Webb & Knapp engineers started taking core samples, they found a 65-ft. formation of blue clay, sand and rock that would have to be excavated at a cost of about $3.000,000. Bill Zeckendorf told his men to keep...