Word: whole
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...canvases, which had stood well out from the ruck of young artists in last year's Venice Biennale, made as much as $75,000. Under the circumstances it is hardly surprising that a growing number of Soviet artists, once they have signed up with a Western dealer, circumvent the whole wearisome apparatus by going to Paris or New York City, making their art and then going back...
...every change that Gorbachev is trying to effect. It was Stalin who established the system of collective farms and the stifling central control of industry that Gorbachev is attempting to break up. And it was Stalin who punished independent thinking with such savagery as to smother the creativity of whole generations...
...representing the father of the state, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, the man who renamed himself Lenin and reshaped Russia in the Bolshevik Revolution. One crucial slip by workers at Moscow's All-Union Artistic-Production Association (hear the clang of bureaucracy in that name), and they must pour a whole new mold. In attempting nothing less than a second revolution, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is also adjusting Lenin, paying lip service to his dogma even while reshaping it to fit the needs of the U.S.S.R. The task is a delicate one, for the future of the Soviet Union -- in some ways...
...homosexuals), it is extremely disturbing to find myself as fair and even designated game for anyone wishing to take a crack at the establishment. If a full professor, such as [Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France, Emeritus] Laurence Wylie, is allowed to make such derogatory generalizations about a whole sector of the student body, what is to keep other members of the faculty and the student body from discriminating based on such an unfounded characterization...
...great feeling," Young said. "Everything seems to have worked out for the whole team this year. We won the Beanpot, which doesn't happen very often, and the Ivy League title and then the national championship...