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...majority of publicly owned U.S. companies are dead set against even a hint of conflict of interest, punish it severely when they discover...
...general temper of the occasion, but neither for the present nor for the future is it wholly to be dismissed. If of the good will between Africans and Europeans, it is also a key fact that, at least for politically consicous Nigerians, resentment of colonialism and of any hint of racial, social, or political inferiority is the profound emotional driving force behind the demand for equality, dignity, and independence. The white man's rule has been lauded in many articles and speeches and there is gratitude for the extensive experience of self-government which Nigeria has been given, but there...
Rome, the city of grandiose ruins, was "erected by parvenus," new-rich "imperial lunatics" with no hint of classical restraint: "Whatever is classical is subtly proportioned. The proportions of a building such as the Colosseum are as subtle as those of a Greenland whale." As for the Renaissance, Rome and the Italians were impervious to it, says Menen, until the Arabians sparked "the rebirth of learning" by rediscovering mathematics and the great Greek texts. Italy's Renaissance princes kept scholars as show-off status symbols ("The scholars cost more than a dog, but not always more than a horse...
...with bliss as she tilts her vividly sculptured head upward, her eyes wide and her lips parted. Such sensuality is condemned as decadent by many Egyptian classicists. Yet this sculpture has an inherent vibrancy. The youth in the Dattari Statue combines the old and the changing civilizations. Beyond the hint of a smile, his face has been idealized without much individuality. But his body has a supple quality far different from the slablike torsos of the sculpture of the earlier dynasties...
...machine built by a German inventor in which nine different types of instruments were operated mechanically, the piece includes a rumbling God Save the King, an absurdly tinkling For He's a Jolly Good Fellow, an immense eruption of drums and other battle effects, with only an occasional hint of the true Beethoven (most contemporary critics loved it). Altogether, it is a fine stereo demonstration piece and, as deafeningly played by Conductor Gould, guaranteed to agitate the surface of a martini...