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Four years ago, Bunney was Connecticut State Champion in the half mile as a senior at Guilford High Just a few years later the Quincy House senior is once again the cream of the crop of his trade, the art of running faster than anybody else...
...this case, the foreground counts most. It is a simplification, but not a gross one, to say that Morley and the late Philip Guston were the twin unlatchers of "new figuration," at least in America. Morley was an expressionist artist when most of the current crop of neoexpressionists were still, aesthetically speaking, in diapers. His mix of mass-media cliche with intimate confession, his abrupt shifts of gear in imagery and format, and his therapeutic desire to shovel his whole life-traumas, lusts, memories, hopes-onto the canvas, struck many younger painters as a fresh model of artistic character...
Administrators in the Division of Applied Sciences and Harvard lawyers have been trying to devise a way of halting the black market and will continue scheming at least until the first crop of Apples arrives in a few weeks...
...affairs and trying to shape events are neglected in presidential literature. Most Presidents cannot describe their feelings; some are fearful lest such a confession make them seem power hungry, which is an occasional of at that level. Jerry Ford, perhaps the most modest and candid of the recent presidential crop, explained once while in power, "I can't wait to get to the office each morning to see what problems there are and try to do something about them...
...crop of exceptionally rich people is springing up in America, almost from nowhere. Rarely have so many made so much so quickly. They have a gambler's nerve, a fortuneteller's foresight and a prospector's nose for gold. They have prospered first by starting or investing in small, unknown companies, and then capitalizing on the 17-month-old bull market that has sent the Dow Jones industrial average to one new high after another...