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Subways. While many articles are rented for the purpose of borrowing status (a mink stole, from Manhattan's Consolidated Laundries for $35 a night; a Rolls-Royce, from Buckingham Livery for $9 an hour) or showing off (an elephant, from Fred Birkner for $500 a day), most users rent...
To his friends and associates, Architect Eero Saarinen was known as "a man who is always en charette." The term goes back to the heyday of Paris' Beaux Arts, when young architectural students, late with their assignments, would hire little carts to rush their designs to their professors just...
Brecht's intent, of course, in manipulating these characters of other writers was to break the barriers of the theatre of illusion (the "culinary theatre" he called it contemptuously), and they became basic parts of his 'epic' narrative methods. By 1924, when work on A Man's a Man began...
Viet Nam (land of the south) has long been a magnet for conquerors. First came the Chinese, who drove south in the 2nd century B.C. to grab control for a thousand years, labeling the area Annam (pacified south), exacting tributes of pearls, precious stones, elephant tusks and valuable woods for...
Outwardly, the President of the U.S. seemed his usual active self. Returning from Europe, he made his television report to the nation, kept a campaign pledge to greet the senior class of the Tomah, Wis., high school at the White House, addressed graduating midshipmen at Annapolis, spoke to editors of...