Word: priceless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ANGELES MIRROR-NEWS: ONCE again the G.O.P. was portrayed as the party of the rich, the selfish and of "big business." And once again the Democratic party appeared as that of the little fellow, the workingman and of "the middle class." A reconstructed Republican party has a priceless opportunity today. For between the nether wings of both major parties, there exists a tremendous vacuum, aching to be filled...
What made the Russians decide to part with such loot? Politics, probably. General elections will be held in East Germany next week, and Premier Otto Grotewohl's regime needs bolstering. At ceremonies celebrating the return of the loot, Grotewohl orated: "In saving all these priceless sculptures and paintings from destruction, while American bombers reduced Germany's cultural centers to rubble, the Soviet army once again demonstrates its noble mission and its high ideals." Nonsense, commented one high museum official behind his hand. "The Russians simply confiscated everything...
...modern poetry that "doesn't come to some meaning is born dead. Nobody reads it. They write it only for each other." Good poetry is written in "fine, clear pictures." Abstract painting: "A man I know owns a painting of a head with three eyes which he considers priceless. Three eyes!" Ezra Pound's Cantos: "I don't say I'm not up to them; I say they're not up to me. Nobody ought to like them, but some do, and I let them. That's my tolerance." Working conditions for the creative...
...planned the parricide, he said, while lying in bed several nights before. On the night of the crime, police said, Dean read an article in the Mormon magazine Era entitled, "I Think of Papa." It was illustrated by gnarled hands peeling an apple with a knife, ended: "How priceless is the memory of a good father." Dean left his Boy Scout knife folded inside Era, then went to bed. Later, he told police, he stole downstairs for a kitchen knife, crept back up and killed his sleeping parents. Did his dying mother, then, pass on to the police Dean...
...year ago, they unearthed a cache of hundreds of small clay figures. Callously the highway crew smashed the figures into the roadbed, but their foreman told the story at the sake house that night. Soon a delegate of National Museum curators rushed to the spot-too late. Lost: another priceless trove of Haniwa sculpture, the funerary pottery in the form of warriors, horses, shrine maidens, even ducks, monkeys and chickens found in burial mounds of the 3rd to 7th centuries...