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Despite her outstanding doubles success, Sally prefers singles competition. "I'm an individualist by nature, and tennis is the individual sport," Sally said in a recent interview. "I feel like it's me against the world out on the court, and there's no one to turn to but myself. I have to dig deep down into myself to keep fighting back if I'm behind. It definitely makes me a stronger person overall...
...taken together, these two volumes reveal the emergence of an American intellectual Right on the European model, basing its conservatism on a collective--rather than an individualist understanding of society...
Cross-Fade,, one of Nikolais's genuinely mixed-media works, touches on man's egoism, and the individualist's haughtiness and vanity. The work begins as one dancer poses with pelvis thrust forward, one dancer poses with pelvis thrust forward, one hand positioned smugly behind his head. His photograph and then a larger-than-life silhouettte is thrown on the scrim. More and bigger photographs follow as other dancers join in, all lit by a bronze glow, enshrining them as perfect Renaissance nudes...
...made voluntary, labor unions broken up or every conceivable public project turned over to private ownership; nor are they hysterically anti-Communist. But taken together, these two volumes reveal the emergence of an American intellectual Right on the European model, basing its conservatism on a collective--rather than an individualist--understanding of society...
Hiram Salisbury was an epitome of the self-sufficient individualist. He was a farmer, a peddler, a carpenter, a tax-collector and a member of the Rhode Island General Assembly, and everything he needed he seems to have made for himself. His great grand-nephew, Harrison, has an account book with records of all his financial transaction, so he knows more about Hiram's skills and vocations than about his thoughts, but Salisbury's pioneer ancestor remains a symbol for him of a pure, uncorrupt American optimism...