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Among the last of King Abdullah's official visitors last week was a stocky, cigar-smoking man with a tarboosh tilted jauntily over a blunt, puckish face. He was Riad Bey el Solh, 57, one of the Middle East's shrewdest politicians and Lebanon's first premier when the little country became independent...
...series of blunt sessions with the State Department, Symington stuck to one principle: if the State Department wanted to bolster the Bolivian economy, it should get a foreign aid appropriation from Congress. It had no right to expect him to exact an artificial subsidy from U.S. consumers...
...cross William Hogarth had to bear was that he simply did not impress his contemporaries as a serious painter. His colors were too fresh, his draftsmanship too free & easy, his characterizations too blunt and unflattering. When he held auctions of his oils in 1745 and 1751, the paintings he liked best were laughed at. Even the oil originals of some of his most popular engravings sold for little more than the price of their frames. Finally, in disgust and despair, he took down the shingle of his trade from his London house and retired to the country. He wrote...
...Elliot) & Ray (Goulding) (Mon.-Fri. 5:45 p.m., NBC) are two comics from Boston's WHDH, relaxed but not tired in the TV manner, who moved into New York to give blunt, deadpan satires on soap opera, commercials (man-eating mulberry bushes) and "our contemporary way of life," all backed by hysterical organ music. Their spoofing and imitations are pleasantly homemade, but done at a professional pace...
...apostles of the "society-centered" and "child-centered" school. In his famed social science textbooks (more than 2,000,000 copies), Harold Rugg slashed away subject barriers, tried to revolutionize social science teaching in the schools by combining history, geography, civics, economics into a "total portrait." His blunt, New-Dealing criticisms of U.S. history, past & present, raised storms of protest in the '30s and early '40s, made Author Rugg ("To keep issues out of the school is to keep life out of it") one of the most controversial teachers of his time...