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...Jacques Maritain, Georges Bernanons, Maurice Barres and Leon Daudet (son of Alphonse). Charles Maurras, who founded and led the movement until its demise in 1944, began as a critic propagandist, really--calling for the revival of the classical literary norms and the scuttling of romanticism: only later did he embark on a career of agitation for a social and political order which, in the harmony of its parts, restraint of form and moral decorousness, would nicely complement the reborn ancien regime litteraire...
...Federal Government should embark on a policy of full, rational employment by establishing a United States Employment Agency, staffed, financed and chartered to sponsor research, make policy recommendations to the President, and administer necessary compensatory, retraining and relocation programs. With its national perspective, such an agency could treat regional and industry-wide patterns of disruption in the context of structural economic change...
...loosened a little, lowered the official bank interest rate by 0.3% to 6.57%-back to where it was before the clampdown. Japanese businessmen were delighted, but they still managed to pull a poor mouth. Says Fuji Steel President Shigeo Nagano: "I would like to see the government now embark on a general relaxation of financial curbs, otherwise it is going to be a long, slow climb back to prosperity''-Japanese style, that...
...schools of journalism, large doubts arise as to whether there is any legitimate reason for their existence. Journalism cannot really be taught. The essential newspaper 'techniques' are not techniques at all, but touches of talent." - "There is in journalism a widespread view that when you embark on interpretation, you are entering choppy and dangerous waters, the swirling tides of opinion. This is nonsense. In the presentation of a so-called 'factual' or 'objective' story, judgments are involved. And they are judgments not at all unlike those involved in interpretation...
...embark on one beat, switch to another, then return to the original without a hitch. He never misses a rim shot, and his timing is faultless. What is more, James Bradley Jr. is only four...