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Elson's book points up the interesting origins of the two founders. Henry Luce: son of a devout Presbyterian missionary, born in China, his fondest memories of Fourth of July celebrations when the Americans clasped hands in the "hush of eventide" and sang My Country, 'Tis of Thee. He never could forget "a shameful, futile, endless two hours one Saturday afternoon when I rolled around the unspeakably dirty floor of the main schoolroom with a little British bastard who had insulted my country." Such experiences, he later felt, gave him a "too romantic, too idealistic view of America...
...annoyance at the President's blunt words-only at the $6 billion price the conservatives had demanded. With the stability of the economy at stake, Johnson can hardly refuse to go along, but he cannot take much pleasure in a package that promises to gut some of his fondest domestic programs...
...Germany when he was 20. There, in Dusseldorf, he learned the romantic lighting and theatrical staging then in vogue, techniques that worked as well on U.S. local color as on Rhine landscapes. Though he lived abroad for most of the brief ten years before he died at 30, his fondest subjects remained the Eastern Shore oyster houses, Chesapeake card games and political fisticuffs back home, and he returned occasionally to refresh his memory. In 1848, when the U.S. was at war with Mexico, he painted his War News from Mexico. From the shirt-sleeved fellow shouting out the story...
...replay Edward Albee's "Get the Guest." Then Liz turned to Richard and purred: "It's awful, dear, but I'm afraid we just can't find anything nasty to say about her." As for the ever-cryptic Albee, he says: "One of my fondest memories is the bubble of spittle on Sandy's mouth toward the end of the picture...
...fondest dreams of the urbanologists is a return to coherent neighborhoods. Doxiadis, who spends much of his time in America, preaches that "we must re-establish the human scale by making man feel part of his environment, not overpowered by it." His goal: communities of 30,000 to 50,000 people, measuring no more than...