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...budget has been called political propaganda." the President told newsmen. "Now. I am not running for anything. I am just trying to do my best for America." And in trying to do his best, a lame-duck President -lately berated by Democratic critics for losing his grip and wanting to shrug off responsibilities on Congress (see The Congress) -had managed to frame the first big political issue of 1959 in his own terms...
Chained Lion. Poe was in the grip of Byronism, but as a Childe Harold he was handicapped. In his defiance of society, Byron had the backing of Newstead Abbey and of a hard, aristocratic realism. Poe fought blind. The search for identity was complicated in Poe's case by multiple miscasting. The gentleman, the lover, the adventurer, all cut absurd figures behind the back of Poe the poet. His sense of vocation as poet and fabulist never deserted him. It did not fail him even when Allan had him measuring yard-goods in the store, when he "ran away...
...with frosty blue eyes and arctic white hair, he dresses like Daddy Warbucks (blue suits, grey Homburg) and resides in manorial splendor on huge farms (champion Shorthorn beef cattle) in Ohio and Nova Scotia. His personal wealth is estimated at something like $100 million, and his hard-knuckled grip on U.S. industry extends over a $2 billion empire of iron and steel, railroads, shipping, coal and paint. Cy Eaton picked up his empire by lone-wolf feats of financial derring-do that have brought him more bitter court fights, proxy wars and Government investigations than almost any businessman...
...party bodies will grip the task with all their energy," concluded Khrushchev, "the goals set by the seven-year plan will not only be fulfilled but overfulfilled." In other words, the party must get tougher with the peasants-or Khrushchev is not going to hit his ambitious target of raising farm production another...
Edward Hopper's Sunlight in a Cafeteria (see color) was strictly old-school-tie abstraction-the tie being to reality. It proved once again that Hopper, 76, keeps as firm a grip on imaginary space as any abstract artist alive, still wrings poetry from its arrangement. Charles Sheeler, Georgia O'Keeffe and Loren Maclver also scored for the older generation, and Stuart Davis' brassily old-fashioned abstraction, Pochade, was like a joyful bopping of the drums for Dixieland jazz, a great U.S. export of another era. Overall, the Whitney show testified that there is more substance...