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...order, Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, the towering (6 ft. 4 in.) tornado of Australian politics, abolished the draft, and made it clear to both the U.S. and Britain that they could no longer count on unquestioning Aussie support of their Pacific policies. At home his broom was just as brisk, and his Labor government imposed restrictions on big multinational corporations, which control about two-thirds of the country's mining, and gave big boosts to government programs for education, health and transportation...
...only their jobs but their homes; their right to keep living in company-owned housing would be questionable. By Harlan County standards, last week's activity on Wall Street was gentlemanly, but tempers are growing short -and Stump's Gun Shop in Harlan is doing a brisk business...
...Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility continued its brisk pace on proxy resolution decisions Tuesday, voting on nine resolutions on equal employment and corporate political activities and operations in South Africa...
...collection was housed in the Morgan Library, a Manhattan palazzo designed by McKim, Mead & White that is itself a masterpiece of American Renaissance Revival architecture. After Morgan died in 1913, the buying went on under the direction of Belle da Costa Greene, a woman from Virginia of brisk wit and considerable presence, who expanded and refined the collection for four decades. The library became a public institution in 1924, and this spring it has mounted an exhibition, "Great Acquisitions of 50 Years: 1924-1974," to celebrate its golden anniversary...
Western criticism has borrowed some of its words from Chinese art, but paintings like these make one realize how the terms have suffered in transit. To speak, for instance, of the "calligraphy" of a Western artist-Pollock's dripped skeins of paint, or the brisk rhythmic jotting of a Rembrandt sketch -is to use a metaphor. In classical Chinese painting, it is not. The wen-jen used the same brush for painting and writing, the same ink, the same habits of mind. The distinction between word and image, which is one of the sharpest divisions in our culture, barely...