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...teamsters' building is the most opulent, but only one of many union structures in Washington. For despite the dictum of A.F.L. Founder Sam Gompers to avoid Government entanglement, one by one, U.S. unions have been moving to the nation's capital. As one A.F.L. official put it: "What happens on Capitol Hill is bound to affect [unions], and they can be more effective by moving their top people to Washington." Today 51 unions have their national headquarters in the capital, with still more coming in. Next, an eight-story, air-conditioned building will open in time to house...
...Build Morale. "You don't put morale on like a coat," Hurry-Up Yost used to say. "You build it day by day." It is another Yost dictum that Oosterbaan follows by keeping players relaxed and happy. (As a sophomore, he himself was once kicked off the squad for "lassitude" by an assistant coach, but Yost got him back.) He never uses sarcasm to goad a player, never loses his temper, almost never makes dressing-room pep speeches...
...course of their ephemeral existence, the successive chiefs of government have unceasingly, and for any reason, seen their confidence and authority questioned by those who invested them. Day after day, they are tormented and harassed until they are morally and physically exhausted." Pointedly, Coty cited Clemenceau's dictum: "Liberty is the right to discipline oneself so as not to be disciplined by others." In the pages of Le Figaro, André François-Poncet, longtime French High Commissioner in Germany and a "living immortal" of the Academic Franchise (see below), declared: "[Another crisis] would justify the calumnies which...
...Association began its scheme to overwhelm Harvard three years ago with its decision to replace the traditionally fragile wooden goalposts with ultramodern (and indestructible) steel ones. Finding that students remained docile in spite of this insidious innovation, the haamonsters handed down an even more radical dictum--NO ALCOHOL IN THE STANDS. This, in itself, was enough to drive droves away from the Stadium, but a tenacious few (who had flasks) grimly went on getting tickets...
...hold the attention of his patrons, Tintoretto heightened the drama of his work, wrenching perspective and (Continued on page 83) filling his canvas with staring, hysterical figures. Parmigianino, following the new Mannerist dictum that form springs ready born from the artist's imagination, created a new kind of beauty, slender women with exquisitely enigmatic faces atop long, Modigliani-like necks. Courtiers, modeling themselves on Machiavelli's precepts, flocked to Bronzino for portraits that showed their faces expressionless masks, only a clutching hand or startled stare betraying their tension...