Word: spectrum
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...TRIAL BEGINS, by Abram Tertz. Smuggled out of Russia, author unknown, this short novel moves with surgical precision through the surrealist world of Soviet prison camps and the larger reservation that is Communist society. At one end of the spectrum stands the conditioned Soviet organization man, at the other the disillusioned idealists who wonder whatever happened to their dream...
...Reuss advocated a "pluralism" under governmental coordination--a federal agency making grants to a spectrum of private organizations...
...first work by an American of any period, the National Gallery of Norway in Oslo last week got a wistful and lyric portrait called Albert's Son, by Andrew Wyeth, perhaps the most commercially successful of serious U.S. artists. At the other end of the artistic spectrum, the Tate Gallery in London announced that as the first work to be hung in its new American Wing it had acquired a swirly 1949 abstraction by the late Jackson Pollock, who is still the unsurpassed master of the "drip method." In neither case did the museums have to dip into native...
...writer later told the CRIMSON that Pennsylvania and Yale were the Ivy schools with rules on coaches' recruiting similar to the College's. "At the other end of the spectrum, where coaches have varying degrees of freedom -- within basic Ivy Group and NCAA rules--are Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, and Princeton," he said...
...Gary has done it again. In four swift, sure, moving pages he has confronted youth with old age, invoked the spectrum of life from cradle to grave, underscored the sad truth that there comes a time when just to be able to rise and walk is a cause for self-congratulation...