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Members of The Blue Rider aspired to nothing less than painting the essence of things. They put feeling first, faithfulness to nature or to formal conventions last. They were the clear, sweet dawn of German expressionism, a school that later languished from too much heaviness, bitterness and swagger...
...Dawn Patrol. Curtice's genial competitor, Chrysler President Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert, thinks he works about as hard as any man should, trying to get Chrysler back to 20% of the automobile market. "But most every Monday morning when I'm shaving out home in Bloomfield Hills," says Colbert, "I hear old Red Curtice's airplane flying in from Flint. And every Friday night when I'm home and tired and walking my dog, I hear Red Curtice flying home again." When he is in Michigan, Curtice spends most of his week nights...
Travels (really intended as a political satire) has been for two centuries a classic child's book. This man, born at the dawn of the Age of Reason, was to turn into a madman; the skeptical clerk who wrote lucid prose died raving. His was the skull beneath the powdered skin of the 18th century...
...could get up from a card game. The Syrians fought back savagely, nevertheless. The battle raged for two hours in and around their concrete pillboxes, barbed wire and connecting trenches, until they were finally overwhelmed. The Israelis then methodically destroyed every military installation in the area and withdrew before dawn with 30 prisoners. Said a tired, mud-spattered but jubilant Israeli soldier: "We gave them a lesson they won't forget for ages...
...have to gear my work to the job at hand. If that requires getting up before dawn and working through till midnight, then that's the way I do it. But if there's nothing pressing the next day, then I'm likely to be an hour late getting to the office and an hour early leaving it. I'm one of those unfortunate men who have to have pressure to work well. So instead of efficiently spreading my work out and doing it on a schedule, I tend to let it pile...