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...Fadiman, because of his family heritage. "Charlie was brought up to be unconscious of the fact that he has an inferior or superior," says Fadiman. "Because of this, he never starts to press. The Van Dorens represent a tradition of people that is almost dead now, like Thoreau and Emerson. They have their roots in the 19th century. They are content and confident in themselves...
...bright California morning last week, bomb-shaped General Curtis Emerson LeMay, boss of the Strategic Air Command, landed at March Air Force Base near Riverside, stepped off the ramp, glanced at his watch, then stared dourly at the calm, brilliant sky, and waited. Soon three big, eight-jet B-52 SAC bombers streaked into view in tight formation, peeled off and landed a minute apart, their huge brake parachutes billowing from their tails. Throttled down, the planes sedately taxied two miles to the base-operations building, their high-pitched, throbbing scream searing the air. Then, abruptly, the planes were silent...
Educators have long warned that TV has been turning the old art of reading into a closed book for the latest generation. But last week Emerson Greenaway, director of Philadelphia's Free Library, credited TV with, of all things, an improvement in reading standards. Said Greenaway: "Everybody can see mysteries, westerns and love stories on television, so when they come to the library, they ask for more serious books." Result: the library now spends more of its book-buying budget on classics, less on shallow stuff. TV, he says, has also stimulated a reading interest in famous plays...
...pretty flat-chested, on the whole.'' "The Pacific Ocean is sort of misty, greyish." "Armenians have no backs to their heads." "I don't see why people are crazy to import French paintings when there are so many French paintings being made in America." "I like Emerson to read, I guess...
...World. One remark of Emerson's applies very well to Hopper's own paintings: "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." Hopper is clearly a genius of this kind; he paints not only what Amer icans have seen from the corners of their eyes, but also what they have dimly thought and felt about...