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...Treasury sales by purchasing the securities directly from the Government at a Federal Reserve Bank. For many investors, safety is still the ultimate lure. Said a Chicago police officer after buying a Treasury bond last week: "If you invest in the Federal Government, the whole country has to fall apart before you lose anything." Despite the Government's profligate spending habits, most people think it can still be trusted with a citizen's nest...
...book has merits apart from its wit. Shields uses imagery well and has mastered setting and dialogue, though he occasionally lapses into the cliched. Undeniably, he does have a nice turn of phrase, especially in his satire...
Much of it still does. Reni did not make things easy for himself. Apart from being superstitious (he kept seeing a phantom light over his bed) and timid to the point of paranoia (he refused any food sent to him as a gift for fear that it was poisoned), he was a compulsive gambler. It was his only vice. His sex life should certainly have appealed to prudish Ruskin, for it did not exist: he shunned women in the fear that they might be witches. But gambling debts led him to churn out hack paintings, with predictable results...
...committee, apart from Champion and Williams, includes Neustadt, Democratic National Committee Director Ron Brown, Sen. Robert Dole's (R-Kan.) chief of staff Sheila Burke, former IOP Association Director Nicholas Mitropolis and former IOP Director Jonathan Moore...
...tractors, bonny children and muscular workers, so did the capitalist realism proposed by Benton and Wood. Both were arts of idealization and propaganda. In aesthetic terms, little that Benton painted for the next 40 years would have seemed altogether out of place on the ceilings of the Moscow subway. Apart from this, the whole matter of Benton's racism is still up in the air. His paintings of blacks look condescending because he never figured out how patronizing his desire to "ennoble" them was, but at least he was equally hard on whites, those gangling hayseeds and pudgy politicos...