Word: whitewash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been said that the whole romantic wing of today's abstract painting derives from him. Once he had himself lashed to the mast of a boat for four hours during a severe storm at sea. Critics called the resulting painting "a mass of soapsuds and whitewash." Turner protested: "I wonder what they think the sea is like," and the modern eye can readily see the inner turmoil and thunder. DEVIS. What stands out in the arr represented in the Mellon Collection is the quality that Historian G. M. Trevelyan called "the fullness of life . . . Perhaps...
...Boston, the city has created a Police Review Board to hear the complaints of residents who charge abuse by police officers. Unfortunately, the Board's procedures in its hearings make it probable that its findings will be at best inadequate and at worst a whitewash. The complainant's counsel is denied the right of cross-examination, and in fact has no rights whatever except to advise his client when he is called to the witness stand. The case is prosecuted by a city attorney, and while justice for a citizen is possible when one government official examines another...
...case might involve the government in the biggest scandal since Burgess and MacLean eloped to Russia in 1951. Last week the most sensational version of the Vassall saga to date was unfolded in the House of Commons by the very man whom the Opposition had accused of trying to whitewash the whole affair: Prime Minister Harold Macmillan...
Died. George Herbert Moore, 84, retired U.S. District Judge in St. Louis, a portly senior jurist whose bulldog determination in the 1950s forced grand jury inquiries into tax fixing within the Bureau of Internal Revenue that ended, despite all attempts at whitewash, in indictments including such Truman Administration officials as T. Lamar Caudle and ex-Collector of Internal Revenue James P. Finnegan; in St. Louis...
...German Boss Walter Ulbricht, desperately attempting to justify the Wall's existence, hopes for a visit from Polish Party Chief Wladyslaw Gomulka and Premier Jozef Cyrankiewicz. According to one story current in West Berlin. Gomulka summoned the East German ambassador when he heard that he was expected to whitewash the Wall and told him angrily: "The only thing we know like it in history is the one you Germans built around the Warsaw ghetto...