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...something that is really a personal experience, and this is true for many in my generation. After the war, when I was a student of about 16 or 17, when we were half starved, it was the Americans who helped us. We have forgotten neither the Hoover assistance nor the CARE parcels...
...Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. At a press conference the witty professor was asked if he were more conservative in his outlook and opinions than his good friend and former faculty colleague Monetarist Milton Friedman, who received the Nobel Prize in 1976 and is now associated with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. The 6-ft. 3-in. Stigler brushed off the question: "I don't know if I'm behind Milton or ahead of him, but he's so short it's easy to look over him." (Friedman...
...shuffle was that the distinctive organ sound overshadowed some very deep rock roots and sensibilities. That acid tongue blighted some very heartfelt emotions and a sophisticated political consciousness Costello understands, as the Clash never will, that political involvement must start on a very personal level, in one's own "Hoover Factory," not in a helter-skelter call for a "White Riot."). Or that grating voice obscured a sincerity hard to find in rock today. But that's what the cliche to which he bound himself--"continued anger," as he recently put it in an interview--did to his talents...
Calvin Coolidge shows conflicting moods and feelings; the bottom half is precise and calm, but the top half reflects an impatient, unhappy individual. Herbert Hoover demonstrates incredible motivation, but the coiled web tells us he feels trapped, and the overlapping of the designs suggests that he is a bit befuddled and confused. John Kennedy's graphic movement indicates a superior intellect. Obviously he had bad feelings toward the first, messily drawn house, which may be the White House. His feelings are moderate toward the middle house, and truly homey toward the third. Perhaps he felt some confusion about...
...cowboy, the athlete communicating physically and not verbally (notice there is no mouth), and the grumpy old man who looks to the left, representing the past. These are the doodles of a powerful, well-rounded man. Overall, Kennedy is the brightest of the group, Reagan the most sociable, Hoover the most confused and Coolidge the most disturbed...