Word: voiding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Into this void springs Politicks & Other Human Interests, almost straight from the brain of Thomas B. Morgan, former editor of The Voice in the pre-Rupert Murdoch days, and once press secretary to former New York Mayor John Lindsay. Morgan had the good fortune to be a protege of Gardner Cowles during the last days of Look magazine, and maybe even more important, to marry Nelson Rockefeller's daughter. Morgan tried to buy The Nation last year, but that deal fell through, and so Politicks was born. It looks very promising...
MORE DISQUIETED than the man without a country, more stifled than the rebel without a cause, is the conductor without an orchestra. In the case of Leopold Stokowski, whose repeated misfortune it was to be without that sine qua non, the void had a peculiar poignancy. It didn't matter that Stokowski was perhaps the greatest innovative genius on the podium. Or that when he conducted, box office receipts soared. In the end his alleged ruthlessness would eclipse them, and prompt a dark ending to one orchestral link after another...
...nouns of shape-ivy leaf, diver, parakeet, dancer-work in the same way. They are not backgrounds; they are an enveloping fluid, a space that seems as active as its contents but, being "unpainted," is wholly different. Every painter since 1950 has had to reckon with the peculiar void Matisse invented with his cutouts. Not one has equaled their suppleness as décor, or their episodic grandeur as painting...
...with Vance in Jerusalem, Begin repeatedly took up the Palestinian issue, which seemed to bring out all his emotional righteousness. At one meeting he harangued Vance with passages from the P.L.O.'s 1968 charter, which declares the Balfour Declaration and the partitioning of Palestine to be "null and void." "Imagine," remarked Begin sarcastically, "the State of Israel is deemed null and void...
...final vote showed 436 workers opposed the union and 346 favored it, with 66 contested ballots and two ruled void. There were not enough challenges to anti-union ballots to affect the outcome of the balloting, an official of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which supervised the election, said Wednesday night...