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Just a year ago, George Meany sputtered a pledge of non-allegiance to the Democratic Party, "because they can't deliver." The delivery rate has changed very little, but the A.F.L.-C.l.O. and the Democrats seem to have become publicly re-enchanted. At the federation's executive-council...
"As for the Art off Painting and affection off the people to Pictures, I thincke none other goe beeyond them, ... All in generall striving to adorne their houses ... with costly peeces, Butchers and bakers ... yea many tymes Blacksmiths, Coblers, etts. [etc], will have some picture or other by their Forge...
Wilson found it difficult "to maintain friendly relations with men of superior intellect or position," write the authors. Why? They were father figures against whom he could vent the repressed hostility toward his own father, which, as any amateur Freudian knows, lurked behind the ostentatious affection. "Wilson's immoderate...
Still, until that happens or until they lose their II-S's and have to fight for their I-O status, the Harvard CO faces little trouble. Those who went through the trials of SSS Form 150 several years ago have even begun to regard it with a touch of...
"Speak? Speak?" Death on the Installment Plan (1936) records an earlier stage in Ferdinand's life and should be nicer reading, but it is not. It is even more painful, coming as it does, closer to the heart of Céline's anguished theme: innocence violated by...