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Word: slightly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are abstractionists in the show as well. Their contributions to the print-making world have been slight, as the few works they show demonstrate. The best of the group is a reserved color lithograph by Andrew Stasik where a large mottled rectangular form slanted across the page elegantly balances the white of the paper surrounding it. As for the remaining few abstract pieces, they seem to be imitating avant-garde paintings while suffering from their inability to employ the tactile effects of pigment...

Author: By Ian Strasfogel, | Title: American Prints Today | 10/9/1959 | See Source »

...gesture to youth groups of--if not the state--the metropolitan area. Our seating capacity is much less than Yale's, of course, but this need only mean that the project be less ambitious in scope than Yale's state-wide invitation. Administrative costs could be absorbed by the slight individual charge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Knothole Gang | 10/8/1959 | See Source »

...difficult if not impossible to get into the course, and the responsibility for this situation is conspicuously the English Department's, and not Professor Brower's. But justice demands that the use of English concentration as a criterion for admission should cease, whether or not it will cause some slight damage to those English students who are excluded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Squeeze Play | 9/30/1959 | See Source »

Classes had been going for a week at the Edgar Allen Poe elementary school in well-to-do south Houston. But the principal, Mrs. R. E. Doty, took it as a matter of course when a slight, pleasant man in sports shirt and slacks walked into the school lobby at 10 o'clock one morning last week and announced that he wanted to register his sandy-haired, seven-year-old, Dusty, in second grade. She was only mildly surprised when Paul Harold Orgeron, 47, said sheepishly that he had just come to town and did not know his address...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: That Man Has Dynamite | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...Story. A startlingly beautiful though spiritually slight study of convent life, with Audrey Hepburn as the Roman Catholic nun whose choice between love of God and love of mankind comes hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Sep. 28, 1959 | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

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