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...glass screen as you would on a piece of paper; the writing is transformed into letters that appear as if by magic. Want to change a word? Just circle it. Want to cross out a sentence? Just scratch it out. Want to add a phrase? Just draw a little caret under the insertion point and start writing. Capitalizing on 30 years of research in handwriting recognition, the system can identify carefully printed letters, numbers and punctuation marks and turn them into clean, crisp computer-readable typescript...
...Garet, whose paintings seem to take their stylistic base from, of all things, late De Chirico- not the pre-1918 master of tailor's dummies and spare, aching urban spaces, but the pompous neoclassicist of the '30s. Coarsely colored and drawn with a kind of savvy crudeness, Caret's Flaming Colossus, 1980, resembles nothing so much as a black squid with humanoid ambitions, silhouetted against a conventionally "apocalyptic" background of fire. Yet on this preposterous level, it does work as an image, generating enough energy to blow its neighbors off the wall...
Called "Out to Shake the World," that article, written by the Post's chief editorialist, Caret Garrett, went into a paean over "an armament program on a scale never hitherto conceived . . . not for ourselves alone but for the British Empire, for the Chinese, for any country now or hereafter that will fight the aggressor until he is dead...
...CARET GARRETT Tuckahoe...
...remains earnestly behind the New Deal. The Satevepost's outbursts fell on many an unfriendly ear. Result: rumbling rumors. As far back as last April it was whispered that the Post's sudden vitality was costing it dearly in circulation. Gossip said that Editor Lorimer and his aides, Caret Garrett, Samuel Blythe, Frank Condon and Harry Leon Wilson, had slipped quietly away to Palm Springs, Calif. for a lengthy secret conference as to whether the Post should continue its bombardment of the Roosevelt Administration...