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...zapped the golf cart carrying two reserve police officers. Later, Ford, dressed in knickers and cap, took his wife Betty, in black satin and feather boa, to a Great Gatsby party in Washington. There they captured the prize for best costume. Jerry's award was almost too apt: a graphite club...
...similar pride in being an "independent voter," invites a lot of freeloaders. The middle is thus the natural hiding place for the uninvolved. It includes in its domain hordes of the indifferent, who call themselves tolerant, and of the uncaring, who think themselves pragmatic and flexible. Such people are apt to congratulate themselves on being superior to those who strive, who get worked up, who agitate for causes, who make demands and air grievances, and who disturb the public tranquillity...
...affairs are proof of superiority. The fastidious who deplore the kind of people engaged in politics or wrapped up in causes have in fact left the field to those whom they condemn. They may think themselves the backbone of society and the ultimate arbiters of change, but history is apt to judge them differently. For change conies from those who care, who propose and agitate, modified by those who care differently and oppose; the rest is inertia. The inert middle is not what Aristotle meant to extol...
...paid $40,000 for advice and guidance from United States Leasing Corp. With that, and with loans from American banks (Japanese banks then saw no future in leasing), he opened Orient Leasing Co. in Japan. The dry-witted Inui proved such an apt seito (pupil) that last year Orient became the biggest leasing company in the world, posting profits of $10.4 million, compared with $6.7 million earned by his old sensei (teacher), U.S.L...
Western ideas of form and psychological theories of "body language" are inadequate to deal with African imagery, though it has something to do with both. A European is apt to seek the meaning of a work like the modern Ashanti wood carving of a mother and child from Ghana in its harmony of shapes: the massive, fluid bulges of hair, the delicate formal rhyme between the points of nose, chin and conical breasts, and so forth. But when Thompson showed it to an African, his response to what seemed "universal" in the sculpture was quite different. "She is purely there...