Word: collectively
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...option may have become politically unpalatable for Washington. Sending Elian home against the wishes of his Florida family would require the INS to issue a deportation order. That would force the Clinton administration into a showdown with Florida's anti-Castro exile community, with Republicans only too eager to collect the dividend. So with an election looming, it may be some time before Juan Gonzalez is reunited with...
Students have criticized HLS's use of a consulting firm to collect information that some feel the school could have gathered by simply talking to students themselves...
Phillips' thinking about art, his impulse to collect it and set it in order, was sponsored by two main beliefs. The first is that art is continuous. It is not--whatever the avant-gardists may crudely suppose--locked in an Oedipal battle with its past. Every masterpiece contains the genes of earlier masterpieces, as Manets and Daumiers do of Goyas, as Goyas do of Velasquezes. Second, art gives us access to a paradise of the intelligent senses that, once attained, justifies itself. Its aim is pleasure. Thus, Phillips had a fascinated respect for Picasso's anxiety but no great paintings...
...such collection will ever be assembled again. The money doesn't exist. Nor will the museum's coverage of American painting ever be duplicated. Phillips was the first American museum director to go deep and seriously into U.S. Modernism. "I do not collect American paintings because they are American," he said, "but because they are good and often great." It was a declaration that few U.S. collectors, haunted as they were by the specter of provincialism, would have made. He began with those two heroes of realism, Thomas Eakins and Winslow Homer. But Phillips' taste was more for the visionary...