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...RULE in art exhibits, the more artists and styles crammed into a show, the less possible it is to absorb the impact of the art. The fairest way to display any artist's work would be to collect every drawing, painting, and sculpture he had done since kindergarten and arrange them in chronological order. That way you could see every angle of the artist's creativity, really get to know the man and what he is trying...
Lord Soames will do his best to prevent that gloomy scenario from unfolding. But in the end, he can do no more than set the electoral process in motion under the fairest possible conditions and hope for the best. Once Britain's short-lived raj is over, the people of an independent Zimbabwe will be in control of their own destiny. That in itself is no small accomplishment...
...because the 5-10 idea would benefit both big and small companies, and it appears to be easier to sell to Congress than a further cut in corporate tax rates. Says Albert Sommers, chief economist of the Conference Board, a business-backed research group: "Speedier depreciation is the simplest, fairest and most legislatable general measure of assistance to capital formation...
...correspondents' most pleasant memories of the 1978 election are held by two men with greatly dissimilar experience. Senior Correspondent Jim Bell, who rode the Wendell Willkie presidential train in 1940, believes this year's Senate race in Massachusetts between Edward Brooke and Paul Tsongas was the fairest and most honorable campaign he has ever seen. "The two candidates," says Bell, "ended up the way they started: gentlemen...
Unfortunately, London's two latest biographers and would-be revivalists-both Englishmen-take London the self-made intellectual almost as seriously as he took himself. Andrew Sinclair, an ex-Cambridge don, has written probably the fairest account of London's life. British understatement proves to be just what the subject requires. But when it comes to London's books, Sinclair labors. Prophets are fashionable these days, so he recommends that The Iron Heel be reread as a prediction of fascism and argues that London's inside-dog stories anticipate the behavioral theories of Konrad Lorenz...