Word: label
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...escapes my understanding how O.J. Simpson can make the statement that blacks are superior to whites in sports [May 9] and merely be labeled observant, but if I make a similar observation about whites' superior intelligence, I must suffer under the label of racist...
...good company," gloated Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell. As the latest artist to create a wine label for the renowned French vintner Baron Philippe de Rothschild, 75, Motherwell joined the ranks of Picasso, Chagall, Miro and Braque. Titled Les Caves (the wine cellars), his design is a "primordial image," he explained as he signed and numbered the labels on a dozen bottles of 1974 Chateau Mouton Rothschild in Manhattan. "Chagall and Braque did joyful symbols, but I have a much deeper feeling about wine," said Motherwell, who received 16 cases of Mouton (approximate value: $5,000) for his labors...
Walter had hoped that his coming to Harvard would solve that problem. He thought the label "Harvard man" would be an open sesame to friendship. Most of all he hoped it would mean women would be instantly attracted to him without his having to get to know them. The name did arouse the interests of some women at home in Vermont. When he was home for vacations he would hang out at one of the few nightclubs in town and try to casually work into conversations the name of the school he attended. A few were impressed and talked...
...asked Wuest to remove the chemicals from the lab, to label dangerous chemicals remaining in use and to warn students more forcefully about possible hazards, he added...
...label of War Substitute will not quite adhere to the energy crisis. Millions would agree with Scholar Irving Kristol, who acknowledges that the problem of finite energy is real enough. "I think it's reasonable to ask democratic people for self-sacrifice for limited periods of time for a clearly defined purpose," he says, "but I see no sense in it for an indefinite period." Yet an indefinite period of self-discipline is what Americans face. Perhaps the President should have chosen a more appropriate metaphor; the current crisis is more like an open-ended siege than...