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...work I become a kind of monster." There is violence, a seething impasto in whorls of dark color, the suggestion of hot, bubbling blood. Like the peeling, crumbling walls of the Cuenca museum itself, Spain's informalists, such as Luis Feito, present a modern vision of ancient agonies bred in the scorching sun. They convey a sense of decaying grandeur, human endurance and often bizarre imagination. Only 324 years before, below this newly established refuge of Iberian abstraction, Philip IV's noblemen staged a bullfight in the nearby Júcar River, charging the wading beasts from gondolas...
When Edward VIII decided in 1936 to marry twice-divorced Wallis Warfield Simpson, the King's friend Lord Beaverbrook was one of the first to rally to his side. Not that the Canadian-born press lord was impressed by Baltimore-bred Mrs. Simpson. He noted with a hint of irony that she had protested that she knew nothing about politics and was inexperienced in worldly affairs. Besides, "She was plainly dressed and I was not attracted to her style of hairdressing." Beaverbrook's basic motives seemed to be that he loved a good scrap, especially against the established...
...company owes much of its unique character-as well as its profits-to Kresge's farm-bred frugality and his stern Methodist morality. He once donated $500,000 to the Anti-Saloon League, said that "I never gave a dime to any church the pastor of which uses tobacco." Kresge men and women, mindful of old S. S. dictums, still eat separately in company cafeterias, habitually snap off lights when leaving washrooms-although managers complain that switches are wearing out. Yet when President Cunningham in 1961 urged that the chain fight discounters by opening its own discount "K-Marts...
Giap earned his reputation with victory against the French in 1954, when he became the first modern commander to drive a white European nation out of Asia. Then he was largely unknown, except to his French adversaries, who dismissed him with St.-Cyr-bred contempt as a sometime schoolmaster who had been awarded his general's stars by Communist bush politicians. But Giap's native army defeated his far-better-equipped foe by entrapping a French force of 12,000 in the mountain fortress of Dienbienphu and liquidating it, thus destroying the will of the politicians back...
...Unprohibited by instinct, man more and more effectively attacked members of his own species. At the start of the early Stone Age (500,000 B.C.), war and the hunt became his exclusive occupations, and for about 40,000 years thereafter the warrior virtues of aggression and cunning were intensively bred into his bones...