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According to L.O. and the new Social Democratic party program, the time has now come for the third phase of the socialist movement. First came political democracy, then social welfare, and now economic democracy. The new campaign has two distinct parts, the first of which is well under way. The second part is just beginning to come under discussion but may eventually be more significant. The first part of the program is an attack on managerial prerogatives, symbolized by Paragraph 32 in the rules of the employers federation. The campaign began in earnest in 1971, with the L.O. convention calling...
Autographs (or holographs), as distinct from mere signatures, are by definition documents in the author's handwriting - preferably signed by him. Their value depends on rarity, content -usually their historic significance - and the writer's eminence. With inflation and the uncertain stock market, many buyers have turned to autographs and other tangible investments like diamonds, antiques and rare books, thus driving up prices. "In the past five to seven years, business has more than doubled, even tripled," says Doris Harris, a Los Angeles autograph dealer. Reports Sara Willen, another Los Angeles dealer: "Good manuscripts on the average...
However, in those last years of the School of Paris, when French cultural chauvinism was quite as bloated as its American counterpart later became, Kupka labored under a distinct handicap: his obvious foreignness as an artist. His work looked, and in deed was, Northern rather than Mediterranean, full of theoretical obsessions, flights of mysticism, involuted decor, heavy symbolism and transcendental yearnings. There have been greater abstract artists than Kupka, but none so unmistakably Slavic. Later, when Kupka's eminence as a pioneer of abstract art was recognized-his first completely abstract pictures were done around 1910-11-the French...
...urged Bentsen to speed up his campaign and try to become the front runner. Bentsen seemed to vacillate for a while and then resumed his deliberate pace. Palumbo quit the campaign this month. Says a politician who knows both men: "Ben is a crapshooter, and I get the distinct impression that Lloyd doesn't want to shoot craps." The meticulous multimillionaire is obviously not ready to go for broke...
Eighteen months after the publication of his book on slavery, "Time on the Cross," the controversy surrounding Robert W. Fogel, Burbank Professor of Political Economy and professor of History, has not died down. Recent weeks have even seen a distinct heating up of the scholarly polemic...