Word: starkness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stark Fact. By that time the post-mortem was well under way. Because the vote in the Democratic Party was more than twice that on the Republican side, Stevenson sought comfort in his own interpretation that the big news from Minnesota was "a smashing repudiation of the present Administration...
...matter how much analysis was done, there was one big, stark fact: Adlai Stevenson had taken a critical blow in the middle of his Minnesota. He was not out but he was on the floor, and the count was almost up to ten. The seriousness of his position was wryly illustrated by Kefauver's manager, Florence Joseph ("Jiggs") Donohue. Asked if Kefauver might accept Stevenson as a candidate for Vice President (an unthinkable question on the Monday before Minnesota), Donohue cracked: "I think it might be given serious consideration, if he can demonstrate a greater capacity to get votes...
...John Bratby, 27, who brought gallerygoers up short at his last show with his bluntest tour de force: two stark paintings of a toilet bowl...
Bradley W. Stark--Dunster House; Harvard Student Council; Harvard Combined Charities Drive 1953; P.B.H.; House Crew...
What O'Keeffe wanted to do included huge bee's-eye views of blossoms, asphalt cityscapes, white skulls and pelves set against hard blue Southwestern skies, and -lately-such stark, sun-filled abstractions as From the Plains. Under the sheltering cape of Alfred Stieglitz, whom she married, O'Keeffe developed a diamond-hard pride and a head-on style. Both helped her become one of the strongest, though not deepest, individualists in American painting...