Word: warp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Marx and gloomily predicted the stagnation of a mature economy in the '30s, Slichter forecast the growth of the '40s. When his colleagues prepared for a depression to follow World War II, Slichter predicted the boom. Trained as a labor economist, Slichter never let his bias warp his judgment, ruffled labor leaders by labeling the postwar economy "laboristic," recommending stronger laws against picket line abuses...
...Greeks strove to hold a timeless image up to man. The Romans grew to love the grandiose and the particular. The Etruscans, who insisted that art must above all else be expressive, and who felt free to warp and distort their images to infuse them with energy, are equally the ancestors of Western...
...bare modern wall. Purists argue that translation from painted sketch to woven wool muffles the impact of the artist's intent. Certainly, tapestry has rarely been a medium for great art. But for works short of the greatest, tapestries have a disarming informality, and a richness of warp and weft that compensates for the loss of the immediacy that only the artist's brush can give...
...hymn being sung in the background as Rene is led away in the police van. Lili is looking on, with tears in her eyes and an angelic smile on her face. This latter is more visually absurd than the former, but both are intellectually unsatisfactory in the way they warp the entire story to fit it to an artificial ending...
...nger's politics had long been common knowledge; since 1920 he had been a Socialist. But as editorial boss of the cooperative, Associated Press-like D.P.-A. since its founding in 1949, Sänger had not allowed his Socialist ideas to warp his handling of the news. Still, the very fact that he was a Socialist had constantly bothered the Christian Democratic publishers of the big papers that control the wire service. With key 1961 federal elections drawing on, they finally drummed up enough support on the agency's twelve-man board of directors to sack...