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...Senator from Arizona rose, and the chamber hushed to hear him. He was tall and greying, with an eagle's nose and a noble brow. He wore striped pants, a wing collar, a spade-tailed coat, and nose glasses leashed with yards of black, fluttering ribbon. He rolled out his words with infinite relish. "My faults," he cried, "are obvious. There can be no doubt I have my full share. I suffer from cacoëthes loquendi, a mania or itch for talking, from vanity and morbidity, and, as is obvious to everyone who knows me, an inborn...
...origins in certain impressions of World War II-of white doctors treating dark-skinned natives and Negro medics caring for white G.I.s. This compassion between the races has long fascinated Hirsch, and his paintings tend to have a religious overtone. The hand swabbing the boxer's brow is to Hirsch almost as much the focal point of the painting as the boxer himself. Hirsch likens it to a kind of benediction...
Readers compliment him on articles, but seldom argue with him, Kazin admits, solemnly regretting the middle-brow docility of his congregation. In the course of letting some of the air out of Drama Critic Kenneth Tynan, Kazin discovers a maxim he himself would do well to follow. The British writer's rule, he reports, is "rouse tempers, goad, lacerate, raise whirlwinds." Kazin does none of these things as he dolefully doles out justice...
Blight her brow with blotch and blister...
...dramatic effect: a blast-off shot of Saturn, the U.S.'s largest rocket, soared majestically the length of the page; a glowering portrait of Brigadier General William B. Rosson, the U.S. Army's guerrilla warfare expert, was brutally cropped to eliminate part of the general's brow, all of his hair and his left ear. Even the paper on which the newcomer was printed seemed whiter by several degrees than ordinary oyster-grey newsprint-as indeed it was. Thus last week, after a five-month gestation, was born the National Observer, the U.S.'s first serious...