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...Calvin Coolidge said he chose not to run. But sitting in the garage under the Pru, wrapped in an aluminum space blanket, legs totally cramped, smiling, I think that those of us who chose to run are happy...
...examples suggest counter examples, or at least cry out for more development. The solutions he suggests for mass poverty are unconvincing in places, partly because of the unconventionality of the ideas he throws out in a mere 140 pages, and partly because it is impossible to make blanket statements for all underdeveloped countries...
...casual observer cannot fail to recognize, the referendum question is aimed primarily at the Coalition for a Democratic University (CDU). Students who are opposed to the goals or tacties of the CDU should indicate their view at election time, but it would be dangerously amiss in voting for a blanket disapproval of political parties...
...nearly all the abstract painting being done by artists of Stella's generation in the U.S. today looks ei ther timid or bored. Among younger artists, the abstract impulse tends to be more plainly decorative, less ambitious: witness the elaborately imbricated patterns of Joyce Kozloff s Mad Russian Blanket, or the high-keyed color swatches, like details from Matisse's wallpaper back grounds, of Kim MacConnel's Baton Rouge, 1978. There is also a liking for emblems, sometimes of a puzzling sort−as in the paintings of Lois Lane (not a pseudonym), which sport in profile...
...quest of pay hikes. For the third straight week, a strike by 80,000 truck drivers slowed trade and industry to a near standstill. Locomotive drivers repeated crippling one-day work stoppages that forced hundreds of thousands of commuters into their cars and onto highways made treacherous by a blanket of snow. Still more troubles loomed as London's subway workers considered striking this week. Four public employees unions, whose 1.5 million members include nursery attendants, teachers, hospital workers and crematory operators, staged a "day of action" walkout that afflicted Britons from the cradle to the grave. The public...