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...long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger." - Kennedy Inaugural Address...
...Modern to Houston's Museum of Fine Arts.* His shows are thronged: 247,800 people went to a month-long Wyeth show in Buffalo last year. Last summer, when President Kennedy picked a painter to be among the first winners of the Medal of Freedom-the U.S.'s highest civilian honor-it was quite inevitable that the choice would be Wyeth. A fortnight ago, President Johnson presented it to him with a citation declaring that "he has in the great humanist tradition illuminated and clarified the verities" of life...
...bouncy benjamin of N.C.'s children, Andy enjoyed a special freedom from responsibility. Two weeks in the first grade of the Chadds Ford school made Andy "nervous," so his father generously took him out and supplied a tutor until he was 16. He grew up like Peter Pan, a prisoner of fantasy. "As a kid," he says, "I adored Robin Hood, D'Artagnan, and"-he adds innocently-"Dracula." N.C. designed an immense castle, which his eldest son, Nat, built for the children's playroom. Andy became its lord and staged jousts within its battlements...
...21st century," he said, "security and prosperity at home depend on the expansion of liberty abroad." This was one more formulation of Bush's central philosophy, which he said is threatened by the rise of an isolationist and protectionist mood. "If America does not lead the cause of freedom," he continued, "that cause will...
Helen Vendler, Porter University Professor: “I’ve never believed in (or made) resolutions, being too much in favor of day-by-day freedom. ‘The river glideth at its own sweet will’ (Wordsworth).” Daniel T. Gilbert, Harvard College Professor of Psychology: “I resolved to make only one resolution. And I also resolved to lose 5 pounds.” N. Gregory Mankiw, Beren Professor of Economics: “I resolve to stop responding to queries from The Crimson. (Oops...already broken...