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...perverse impulses of the human spirit to create sheer ugliness have never, unhappily, been easily checked, and the desecration of landscapes with one sort of architectural horror or another has always been a favorite field for release of these energies. Naturally enough, this skill has reached its apex in Our Modern Age with one wondrous achievement: the housing development...
...meant that there would be fewer tutors, and, in that sense, the grand beginnings of tutorial were destroyed. The Committee, nevertheless, did perform the necessary function of reducing the base of the academic pyramid, which had swollen out of all proportion to the number of permanent appointments at the apex...
Bundy has been impressing people since his days at Groton. Raised in Boston, he majored in mathematics at Yale, where his scholastic average was consistently in the high 90's and where he was a member of Skull and Bones, the apex of the secret societies...
...plus income group (after taxes) today is less than a fifth as large, accounts for only a sixth of the aggregate income it accounted for in 1929, provides only .038% of national luxury income v. more than a third in '29. But while the apex of the pyramid has shriveled, the middle has filled out: there are now 30.6 million families with personal incomes of $4,000 or over who account for a luxury income of $41.4 billion. In the words of a Los Angeles broker: "Before World War II there were at least 50 really big yachts here...
...accused it of being two-faced on TVA and advocating land reform abroad and land "collectivism" at home. Foreign visitors are shown this apex of American achievement one day by governmental officials, and then read the next day that Eisenhower calls it "socialism" at home, he added...