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This is not to say that the atmosphere was completely hostile; in fact, I have met a great number of benign and even friendly people, some of whom were actually eager to talk...
Once in a great while a man and his task are so happily fitted that the combination inspires a benign envy. John Wolter is half of just such an equation; his job is chief of the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress. A child of the prairie, seized early on by wanderlust, he turned 60 one recent steamy day, and the cogitation that accompanies important anniversaries led him to say that he was precisely where he wanted to be. He tossed out the remark as he guided a tour through his treasures, smiling like a boy showing...
...invest in housing, the Koreans in commercial property. Indeed, just as the turn-of-the-century immigrants clustered in certain kinds of business -- the Irish in politics and policing, Jews in the textile industry -- each new national group has its common calling. The division of labor establishes new, fairly benign stereotypes. Africans, mostly young men, sell sunglasses, umbrellas and baubles from blankets spread on Manhattan sidewalks. Albanians own apartment buildings. Greeks set up coffee shops, the walls invariably decorated with murals of the Parthenon. Koreans, it seems, suddenly own every vegetable stand in the city. Poles are especially attracted...
...program cannot be completely dismissed. It has marshaled its own cadre of authorities to help make a case that the Viet Nam series, among other things, inaccurately portrayed North Vietnamese Leader Ho Chi Minh as a benign nationalist rather than a ruthless Communist; denigrated the South Vietnamese government and people; overstated the extent of drug abuse and morale problems among U.S. soldiers in Viet Nam; and underplayed the brutality of the Communist regimes that took over in Southeast Asia after the U.S. departure. The Inside Story analysis lends credence to some of these complaints, though it also points out several...
...with their manifestos. Kertesz felt the breeze but sailed his own course. He absorbed the lessons of constructivism, without becoming an arctic formalist. His fellow Hungarian expatriate Laszlo Moholy-Nagy could turn people into compositional load bearers upholding a grand design. Kertesz linked his formal sense to benign temperament. Joining elegant compositions to gentle human anecdotes, he achieved a formalism with the juice still flowing...