Word: weak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kinship to a Degas, be offered as a Degas?" Why should "an only moderately proficient painting called Le Trompeur and a pleasant but unexceptional still-life, without dates, signatures or certifications, be offered as Manets when the best you can say for them with certainty is that in a weak way they share certain characteristics of Manet's art? And when a painting is recognizable as a variation on a self-portrait by Van Gogh, yet is not above the technical level of an average copyist, can it really be defended as an original on no other documentation than...
...like that of Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology. Novelist Grubb, a fine writer whose best-known book is The Night of the Hunter, has written this long, impressive chronicle with great anger and great love-anger for the stupidity and venality of the powerful, love for the weakness of the weak. In their testimony, the town fathers incriminate themselves: the rich doctor objects that Marcy is taking money from the purses of honest physicians with her free toxin-antitoxin shots; the minister pompously complains of Marcy's interfering when she tells of tubercular prisoners in the penitentiary...
...varsity cross country team journeys to New York today to run against two relatively weak squads, Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania. Speaking candidly of the triangular meet, coach Bill McCurdy said "I do not expect it to be any sort of a contest. We're better than they...
Individual performances on both line units, not always evident from the stands but obvious to coaches on films, have been very encouraging to the coaching staff. Brad Stephens has been quite effective at center, a position that was very weak when the season began. Tackle Ed Smith and Dick Diehl have been eliminating their men with some regularity...
...also to buy himself another year as Chancellor. Nobody, after all. would insist that he vacate the chancellorship in 1963 if he intends to move over to the presidency in 1964. Adenauer is still fighting to keep Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard from becoming his successor; he considers Erhard too weak and indecisive to be Chancellor...