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...salaries, appointment of an administrative assistant for each solon, and the lifting of petty but time-consuming burdens such as the supervision of the District of Columbia, the report advocates a revamping of the overlapping, over powerful committee system. Congressional committee have long been the stronghold of the "rugged individualist" and the chief means by which a small group o men could deny the right of the majority to legislate. Therefore the reform urges that Senate standing committees be reduced from 48 to 18; House committee from 33 to 16. Each committee is to have a research board, staffed...
...Hats of a great age," set the record straight: "The specimen ... is of the period of 1907 to 1914. The inverted pipe curl (not gutter, as stated) was conceived, not by a madman . . . but by a master born out of his time, like Picasso. He visualized a market of individualists, and his vision was inspired by deep study of 18th-Century social history. Unfortunately the vanguard of standardized man was already overrunning England, the last stronghold of the individualist, and his creation . . . was, alas, only transitory. By some mischance not readily accounted for, this type of hat was overlooked...
...strong individualist (to put it mildly), Gould, known among other things as the "last of the bohemians," has little respect for the conventions of society. His habits and routine are strictly his own, dictated solely by unpredictable impulse...
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...overall, the movie does not come off. Wilde's novel was a fiercely arrogant if troubled fable about the conflict between the individualist and society, between ethics and esthetics. The film lacks almost entirely this basic tension; it lacks also the moral courage and anguish, the satiated melancholy and the intellectual intensity which pervaded...