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...blood. Born to a family of Iowa journalists, he was cleaning presses at the age of ten for the Adair County Free Press, a newspaper his great-grandfather founded and passed along to his father and brother. Recalls Hugh: "I've wiped down more ink than I care to remember...
...scale of the drawing," Steinberg points out, "is given to you by the instrument you use," and pen drawings, being governed by the radius of the hand, cannot be very large. "The nib has an elasticity meant for writing, and that is why I have always used pen and ink: it is a form of writing. But unlike writing, drawing makes up its own syntax as it goes along. The line can't be reasoned in the mind. It can only be reasoned on paper." Steinberg's drawing, in all its varieties, is a form of thought...
...affair is not that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences believe in the Core, but that belief here will cause the faculties at other colleges and universities to believe. Because of Harvard's institutional prestige and the corporate power of its alumni, the media have lavished huge amounts of ink on the issue, and outsiders have paid attention to the stories. And even if Harvard is not the actual initiator of a trend (as it was not in the '40s, when the University of Chicago and Columbia were the first to devise general education programs), people still perceive Harvard...
...Black-ink budgets promise tax relief, better services...
Collectively, the nation's states and cities ran deficits in four of the first six years of the 1970s; the red ink in recession-struck 1975 totaled more than $6 billion. But last year states and localities rolled up an aggregate surplus of almost $14 billion. Jimmy Carter, in his January economic message, put the figure much higher: almost $30 billion, which, he said, was "a drag on the economy." Governors and state legislators, worried that Congress would use the figure as an excuse to cut federal aid, protest that Carter improperly counted $15 billion in "social insurance" funds...