Word: half-dozen
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Which is not to deny that 1961 is a crisis year, and one that may appear to our posterity among the half-dozen most important in the country's history. But there are crises and there are crises. If this one is important, it is precisely because the very existence of a posterity is in doubt. Unfortunately, political critics seem to be hypnotized by this threat, so terrified by the razor-edge context of their debates that a quality of frenzy dominates even the most lucid of them...
Last week 54 of Rothko's paintings were on display at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, showing 15 years of the development of a man who is one of the top half-dozen abstract painters in the U.S.-one who has created a personal idiom that pleases the initiated but to the others dramatizes some of the limitations of abstractionism. In canvas after canvas, glowing rectangles of color float over other rectangles. Each canvas is a study in contradiction: everything seems in shimmering motion, but nothing moves at all. The paintings offer windows looking out on blind...
...sportswriter for the Minneapolis Star and Tribune told the CRIMSON yesterday that he "would be surprised if there were over a half-dozen Americans in the Western league excluding Minnesota's team." Apparently the situation in the Western league excluding Minnesota's team." Apparently the situation in the West has not improved as greatly as the Faculty Committee thinks...
...colleges and universities invited to participate, more than a half-dozen in the South declined. But the expanded list included Negro colleges in Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana. In all, the program now includes colleges in 28 states and the District of Columbia...
...Temouchent, a market town near Oran, where 9,000 Moslems and 8,000 angry Europeans jammed the main square. Some Moslems, on order of their employers, held up banners reading "Algeria null but it was the Europeans who did most of the shouting. A valiant half-dozen Moslems suddenly raised a sign inscribed "Vive De Gaulle!" It was torn from their hands three times while the police looked...