Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every other book of the year by a good margin, and at the 400,000 mark there was still no sign of a letup. The multiplicity and fragmentation of modern daily life were too much for Author Lindbergh, and her well-written cry of "Enough, enough!" obviously found a vast chorus of agreement...
Rather than an expert on France, Professor Siegfried may better be considered a leading authority on the politics of the world. As vast as this statement is, it may be verified by a glance at his books, in which he studies New Zealand or India with as much care as he considers North or South America. Writing, however, does not monopolize all of his time. He is currently a professor at both the Institute of Political Science and the College de France, an unofficial director of the Suez Canal Company, a member of the French Academy, and a member...
...built to connect Saud's capital with the Persian Gulf are about the only constructive achievements that he can find to list to the regime's credit. All the rest of the oil wealth, a billion dollars or more, has gone down the drain, he says, in "vast private fortunes accumulated and invested safely beyond the borders . . . vast expenditures by princes and officials on the lighter side of life . . ." The Police State. As the profligacy of King Saud's household has increased, says Philby, his tyranny has tightened. Whenever his subjects, usually students and other sons...
...final report-and, he thinks, with good reason. "The requirement, first, of 18 or more units of education for certification as a 'qualified' teacher, and then of summer-session credits therein in order for the harassed teacher to get raises in salary, provides positions for a vast number of professors of education, jobs that they, of course, do not intend to see jeopardized." All in all, concluded Hildebrand, the conference completely failed to come to grips with the real crisis in education. A proper attack on that crisis "would not have brought forth '14 points' with...
...muscles for the crowd with a retrospective show covering 15 years of his career. The exhibition stretched back to the time when Pollock was imitating imitations of Picasso, reached a climax with the year 1948, when Pollock first conceived the idea of dripping and sloshing paint from buckets onto vast canvases laid flat on the floor. Once the canvases were hung upright, what gravity had accomplished came to look like the outpouring of Herculean energy. Pollock had invented a new kind of decoration, astonishingly vehement...