Word: weaker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Clement Greenberg's ideological puppet in the '40s and '50s is sim ply not true: Greenberg did Pollock a great service by writing about his work intelligently and with passion, but he did not "tell" Pollock how to paint. (That dubious privilege would be reserved for weaker artists in the '60s, who wanted to attach themselves to Greenberg's by then mythical aura as a trend spotter.) In any case, Wolfe is inept at dealing with thought, and his account of Steinberg's and Greenberg's criticism is utterly garbled. He cannot treat...
...water table lowers, the clay covering over the caverns becomes more compact and weaker; sometimes it collapses completely, creating gaping craters known as sinkholes. In one Birmingham industrial park, more than 200 such collapses have occurred in recent years, turning a half-sq.-mi. area into a facsimile of the lunar landscape. No end to the problem appears to be at hand. As the New York Academy's journal, The Sciences, points out, "With man's seemingly unquenchable thirst for Earth's fluids, the land will continue to sink...
Ford agreed with Kissinger. The President later confided that the first hours were somewhat confusing, but he sensed that the trouble might be big. He was guided by old feelings, old experiences. Throughout the Viet Nam War, Ford had always come down on the side of stronger rather than weaker responses. In his view, a violation of international law?the seizure of the Mayaguez ?could not be condoned. The only way to prevent a series of such violations was to act decisively on the first...
...deterioration in the atmosphere of the Houses. James S. Duesenberry, chairman of the Economics Department, while claiming that professors in Economics are recovering from the political controversies that have improperly engrossed the department's energy, simultaneously feels that the Houses are now on the decline. "There is a weaker attachment to the Houses than there used to be. The faculty used to enjoy the attachment. It was an amorphous thing, but it did lend something to student-faculty relations. The change may be a by-product of 1969--the habit of getting to the Houses regularly may have been broken...
...Brown managed to beat Yale Wednesday, which meant that the Crimson could share the title with both schools if it could defeat Brown Saturday, providing there were no further upsets by the weaker Ivy teams...