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...innocence abroad. On another it is, perhaps unconsciously, a revealing study of a new phenomenon of history: a British inferiority complex-the mixture of fury and self-pity with which the old cock of the walk surveys the new. On still another level the book is a nervous and indirect reconnaissance of the borders of that undiscovered country of love to which Greene is always journeying without ever quite arriving...
...natural overhead lighting-but without bright success. In 1857 London's Victoria and Albert Museum experimented with fishtail gas jets, lighted by a traveling pilot light that was propelled along a track by a clockwork motor; in 1877 the Victoria and Albert made the first experiment with indirect lighting when military searchlights were reflected from an overhead muslin screen to illuminate paintings. Today, says New York's Metropolitan Museum Director James Rorimer. "the big question is. do you use daylight or electricity?" The obvious answer-"both"-only broadens the debate to problems of how much of each, when...
...spends more and more on airways, highways and waterways for the use of our competitors who contribute little if anything to the cost of local government" through property taxes. James M. Symes, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, No. 1 U.S. carrier, also pleaded with Congress to end direct and indirect subsidies for trucks, airlines and competing carriers. Said Symes: "What we are asking for is the freedom to compete on an equal basis with subsidy to none...
Benheim scored his second goal for the Crimson after five minutes of the third quarter on an indirect kick, when he took a nudge pass from center forward John Hedreen and shot cleanly past Penn goalie Dick Williams...
...said that acceptance of presents by government officials should depend on good taste. A more pristine view might be adopted, however, to guard against graft and avoid any public misconceptions. No matter what the motive, all large gifts, whether beavers or just plain gold watches, tend to look like indirect payoffs for favors and thus discredit the government...