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...good, honest, cheerful and orderly, because whatever kind of behavior she portrayed, the child would imitate . . . Mothers occupied a position of importance which they have never since recovered. This was the day when Mother knew best; there was no book, no scientific authority to shake her maternal self-con fidence . . . Her 'instincts' were right." She was not told when to feed the baby, nor was she told...
Marini could be brutal as well as touch ing. His little Kneeling Girl had the crude, ruined air of a primitive idol dredged up from a marsh. It was academically con vincing in some parts, arbitrarily distorted in others. Where pieces of the plaster mold had stuck to the bronze, it was leprously splotched. The head was as round and almost as blank as a cannon ball, but its blankness was part of Marini's intention: a human "universality" that classic features might have lacked. The Kneeling Girl's fat, soft hams and absurdly shriveled arms gave...
...ones you find in our U.S. edition. Many of them (and there were 2,792 pages of them in our four International editions last year) are directed towards supplying the needs of war-torn or economically undeveloped areas, and almost always they offer their wares by selling the con cept as hard as the product. They sell insecticides, antibiotics and pharmaceutical products, for instance, by selling American standards of health; they sell trucks, petroleum products, road-building equipment and automotive replacement parts by selling American standards of transportation; they sell agricultural equipment by selling American standards of food productivity; they...
While Hogjaw posed proudly, cigarette dangling from his lips, deputies rushed up to arrest the killers and photographers to record the stirring scene. Said Hogjaw, with an old con's bland and innocent eye: "I did it because I want to be something more than just a number at Parchman." There was no guarantee that he would be released because of his big feat, but there would probably be.more opportunities and it seemed only a question of time. Hogjaw, who had also shot (but only wounded) another fleeing prisoner last August, was obviously the type of man that some...
...pounder with simplicity and integrity sticking out all over him, a scholar who looked equally at home in the coal fields of Little Egypt and the tenements of South Chicago. "That guy's no politician," said one steelworker. "He doesn't try to con...