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...want to present. Let's say: the image of a cool, benign forest opening towards the sea. Now I am beginning. With my spatula (I do not possess any brushes) I throw on colors, distributing them and mixing them right on the surface. I am mixing many colors, fourteen, fifteen perhaps, evolving a labyrinth of hues and shapes. Finally, the entire surface is swimming in color. I retreat a few steps to look at my work. For the devil's sake! I can't see any ocean. The luminescent opening in the center has become an enormous...
Here are the Old and the New Nixons, as the columnists used to call them, inextricably merged into a curious figure who for fourteen years climbed the political ladder of America using his crises as the rungs. His first (if we, like him, do not mention in detail the Voorhis and Douglas campaigns) was the Hiss case, in which the freshman Congressman used a seat on the Un-American Activities Committee to ensure the conviction of Alger Hiss for perjury. He built on his success a reputation for finding subversives, and so it was that General Eisenhower, who hardly knew...
...They had data so insufficient that they shouldn't have made any claims," Leet said the other day in reference to the fourteen man advisory committee, "but they swore by their findings. The Russians took one look at the stuff, and laughed. And by God they were right. Any good seismologist would have laughed." So at that turning point in 1958, it was the scientists, not the diplomats, who were irreconcilable...
...Fourteen tennis players and a coach will be seeking sun and Southern tennis about a week from today. Divided into two strong squads, the varsity tennis team heads for Virginia, North and South Carolina to play warm-up matches against country club and university teams in those states...
...McGeorge Bundy resigned Dean of the Faculty of Arts , he vacated a position in prominence only to the Fourteen months have now since Bundy's departure; no has been named; and as the enters its third semester a dean, the question remains...