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...California 80 years ago to buy, with his daddy's considerably-more-than-30-pieces of blood-stained silver money, a socialist German-language newspaper and start the Spanish-American War has New York faced such a challenge from the West. Things fall apart. Now what rough beast with the legs of a kangaroo, the body of a killer bee, and the shrewdness of a platypus slouches towards Gotham to be born...
This is getting out of hand. For two weeks in a row [Oct. 25; Nov. 1], you have seen fit to depict prehensile appendages-the hands of man and beast-on your illustrious cover. Does this mean that the coveted Man of the Year award might perchance be replaced by an analogous honor for "Hand of the Year"? If so, I cast my vote...
...suggestion is that after gleaning millions of dollars from American moviegoers, the beast be deported to Rome to direct traffic...
...puritan sincerity. Small wonder, then, that a large public considers Wyeth the Great American Artist-or that the opposition to him has been, in some quarters, as violent and irrational as the worship. For it is also the custom to attack Wyeth as a mere illustrator, dazzling the midcult beast with a mixture of sentimentality and cold manual tricks...
...legislation points to the basic prejudice at the center of the American health care system, but it recoils from striking at the heart of the beast. Somewhere in the shuffle of proposals, Kennedy's own recognition, expressed in a letter to The New York Times last March that "while 60 per cent of all American failies earn less than $15,000 a year, only 35 per cent of the students in medical school are their children," got lost. At Harvard, where the admissions policy is more liberal than most, only about 10 per cent of the student body could...