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...such luck; a moneychanger is more welcome in the temple than a live artist in the bourse. The blasphemy gave Mrs. Scull a fit of the vapors, and she was whisked away to a restorative party after Mr. Scull, looking suitably grim, told the rude dauber that he ought to be grateful, since the auction price would push up the price of his new work. Rauschenberg, accompanied by an artists' accountant and financial counselor named Rubin Gorewitz, went off to Washington to start lobbying. "From now on," he told the Wall Street Journal, "I want a royalty...
Atkins said yesterday he is already using the month-old research committees. Ed Dauber, special assistant to the councillor, estimates that 75 per cent of the issues that Atkins has brought before the Council have been studied by one or more of his task forces. His motions on tax assessment came out of task force research...
...concepts as 'America is no better than Russia' or 'We all share in Germany's guilt.' The flowers of poshlost bloom in such phrases and terms as 'the moment of truth,' 'charisma,' 'existential' (used seriously), 'dialogue' (as applied to political talks between nations) and 'vocabulary' (as applied to a dauber). Listing in one breath Auschwitz, Hiroshima and Viet Nam is seditious poshlost. Belonging to a very select club (which sports one Jewish name, that of the treasurer) is genteel poshlost. Hack reviews are frequently poshlost, that is simple, but it also lurks in certain highbrow essays. Poshlost calls Mr. Blank...
Other places in the fenced-off reservation were thick with "hot" nests; an abandoned house had so many that sleeping in its bedroom would have been dangerous. Actually, the yellow-and-black dauber wasps that built the nests were no threat to humans because they never fly far enough to carry radioactive material outside the high fence. To make sure that wasps would not confuse the instruments again, he had the monitors screened. Then he went to work studyings the wasps, which had handed him a readymade experiment on the biological effects of radiation...
...Dauber's Difference. Insects can stand more radiation than humans, but they are not immune. Shinn put dosimeters in the nests and found that young wasps sometimes got 25 times as much radiation as a human can stand. The dose apparently reduced by 40% the number of wasps that developed success fully into adults. Of the two kinds of wasps that built nests among the instruments, Shinn noticed that only the yellow-and-black daubers used radioactive mud. The nests of the closely related pipe-organ daubers were always as free of radioactivity as if nuclear phys...