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...monument stands over Babi Yar; A drop sheer as a crude gravestone. -Yevgeni Yevtushenko, Babi...
...rich with detail. One realizes, with fresh interest, how cramped the visual resources of Jefferson's Virginian education must have been; his own remark on local architecture in 1781, that "the first principles of the art are unknown," is borne out in other fields by the stiff, crude society portraits of the young colony. The show traces the neoclassical ideal forming in Jefferson's ideals and tastes-the growing certainty that republicanism was a function of natural law, that a new age of civic virtue was dawning and that an art of reasoned severity and correct classical proportion...
This is a wonderful little bicentennial piece: America has no real poverty (forget about inner cities and blue collar unemployment above ten per cent), has never practiced anything so crude as "genocide" (forget what intellectuals who must run every newspaper and news service in America told you about Viet Nam), and is in the midst of a "Happiness Explosion," at least for the ordinary Joe and Jill...
...third of the 7,700 vessels in Britain's merchant fleet were made in the Colonies. American ironmakers, centered in Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey, have also proved that they are as good as any in the world. Already, America produces one-seventh of the world's crude iron (30,000 tons last year). The ironmakers, like other American workmen, get wages two and three times as high as those in Europe...
...chopping block would open the market to greater competition, end price discrimination by the majors against independent marketers and ultimately result in cheaper petroleum products. More important, they insist that splitting up the industry would stiffen its approach to oil-producing countries, which have quintupled the price of crude in recent years. A fully integrated company, the critics say, has a vested interest in playing ball with the producers, while a marketing and refining firm without producing interests would haggle more vigorously for lower prices...