Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Pablo Picasso once took a look at a 1907 photograph by Alfred Stieglitz and exclaimed, "That man is working in the same direction I am!" Picasso spoke for the small group that had long realized that a great photographer is also a great artist. But one pesky question remains: Since even a bad or indifferent photographer-unlike a bad painter-can by accident produce a great picture, how much is art and how much is fortuitous subject matter? Last week, in Manhattan, the question was noisily reopened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition of 176 photographs...
...been so aroused that one lawyer commented last week: "I'm afraid that the radio and newspaper coverage of this trial will make it impossible to find a jury anywhere in Mississippi in case a new trial is ordered.'' Such criticism led to a delicate question: When does the press stop performing a public service and start creating a public spectacle...
...Billions." Wall Street's second thoughts posed the same question that most U.S. businessmen were asking: Would defense spending really be stepped up? Said Bureau of the Budget Director Maurice H. Stans: "I don't think the summit will have any effect on the defense budget. The difference is that, given disarmament agreement and significant lessening of tensions, we would have been able soon to reduce spending. Now this will not be possible...
...HAVING learned the wisdom of caring for its workers' physical welfare, U.S. industry is now debating a new question: Should it also concern itself with their mental health? Once, a worker's emotional state was considered strictly his own business, like the sort of food he ate. But in recent years, many a corporation has recognized a close relationship between the worker's mental state and his performance on the job. Many businessmen are coming to believe that it is only "practical humanitarianism" to try to increase efficiency by improving employees' mental health...