Word: conveyances
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...achieve a very definite (and intended) effect. In his "Composition A-18," the clever placing of several dotted lines directs a jumble of planes to recede from the viewer into a large white circle, and the whole melange tumbles into a dark corner. However little meaning the painting may convey, its perspective, crispness, and balance show it to be the work of a first-rate designer...
Assigning several shorter papers during the term helps primarily to teach methods, approaches, modes of treatment and attention, rather than to convey a substantive mass of knowledge...
...strident remarks, which made the world's headlines, were mostly passed on the vodka circuit, in those little diplomatic huddles that are the Soviet equivalent of Meet the Press. Many of the remarks were more muted by the time they were printed in Pravda. What Khrushchev wanted to convey to his own people was delivered earlier in a formal nationwide radio and television address, scrupulously similar in staging, and even in tone, to the previous week's "fireside chat'' by President John Kennedy. Natty in silk tie and bemedaled grey striped suit, Russia's boss...
...difficult to convey adequately how the Bizerte tragedy has affected Tunisians. "For years we have lived with France and now they do this," said a dock worker at Bizerte. "One never knows them well enough, does one?" Dozens of times during the week. Tunisians came up to me to say, "C'est fini!" From President Bourguiba down to the lowliest peasant, there is the realization that, come what may and even with the passage of time, Tunisians will never trust France again...
Under the direction of Marston Balch, the current performances by students and semi-professional players convey more than a minimal amount of the wondrous blend of humor and pathos in the script. And there are some fine moments in John McLean's Laudisi, Carroll Cole's mad (?) young man, and Barbara Joseph's mad (?) mother...