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...trade, as on other points, of course, Buchanan often appeals less to economic logic than to nationalistic nostalgia. Last week he apostrophized the faces on Mount Rushmore as those of fellow protectionists, and he was right. George Washington was a Buy American booster who boasted that he drank only U.S.-brewed ale, and Thomas Jefferson came over to that side as President. Both Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt assailed free trade. T.R.'s view: "Pernicious indulgence in the doctrine of free trade seems inevitably to produce fatty degeneration of the moral fiber...
...Seniors drank glasses of champagne and munched on cookies. Those still capable of speech chatted with their compatriots about life-after-thesis...
...were tough and slovenly--and we studied Greek: Studs Lonigan with brains. We did three hours of homework a night and drank too much beer on weekends. We hitchhiked or rode the streetcar and bus to North Capitol and Eye streets, to a neighborhood called Swampoodle. Gonzaga was a proud but touchy school in a squalid neighborhood, with a whorehouse across the street (a source of some entertainment in Latin class, when we would translate Virgil and through the window covertly watch the women emerge to stretch and take the morning sun on their stoop...
...Philadelphia, Henri's worldly, rebellious, effusive nature made him a magnet to younger artists, most of whom worked as illustrators for the Philadelphia press--Sloan, Glackens, Shinn and Luks. They drank together, had long poker sessions, bellowed poetry at one another and argued late into the night. Sloan recalled 50 years later that Henri was "a catalyst, an enthusiast ... with the pioneer's contempt for cant and aestheticism." Moreover, he was genuinely interested in the young, and was to inspire several generations of students--not only his younger contemporaries like Sloan and Bellows, but Edward Hopper and Stuart Davis...
...Loker Commons on Opening Day, I received a free Seattle's Best Coffee mug stuffed with coupons and some gourmet chocolate-covered espresso beans. This unexpected gift made me happy, and I sat at one of the new brushed-metal tables in the coffee shop, beaming as I drank my mocha...