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...probably continue to decline over the next year. On Tuesday morning, rumors whirled through Wall Street that Henry Kaufman, chief economist of the Salomon Bros, investment house, had also changed his mind on interest rates. Word that these two gurus, known on the Street as Dr. Doom and Dr. Gloom, had reversed themselves electrified the stock exchange. By 10:20, just 20 minutes after the market opened, the Dow Jones industrial average was up almost 5 points...
...Branding these blueprints "idiotic" and "deceitful," subcommittee members pointed out that there would also be no trucks, trains or airplanes for delivering the mail. Later, Retired Rear Admiral Gene La Rocque, a defense policy expert, said, "I can assure you that while neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night will stay the postal couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds, nuclear war will...
...country needed a warm bath and a bit of soothing. What it got instead was a fresh, hard needlepoint shower from the ranks?indeed, from the home. It was a little too much. Doors slammed, windows rattled shut. The national circuits had temporarily shorted out, and, in the prevailing gloom, the feminist torches looked less like beacons than
...supplied models both antique and modern. The chief modern one was Caravaggio, who had died on a malarial Mediterranean beach at the start of the 17th century and left behind him a vast legacy of influence all over Europe. To paint commonplace models in tavern settings or caves of gloom, to infuse biblical subjects with an exacting realism and directness, to drive the mincing preciosity of late mannerism out of art-such were the aims of French Caravaggisti like Valentin de Boulogne (1591-1632), whose Fortune Teller raises narrative to a pitch of ironic theater worthy of Caravaggio himself...
...gloom lifts later along the path through the course descriptions. Professor Greg Nagy's "Heroes for Zeros" (CLAS S-102, "The Concept of the Hero in Hellenic Civilization") strides forward, a manly and dependable gut in any season. FNAR S-13e, "Introduction to the History of Art." PSYCH S-15" Introduction to Physchology and Social Relations"--this is the stuff of the whispered "Camp Harvard," GOVT S-30. "Introduction to American Government," is a course of many high school students...