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Plucking an Insult. Throughout the commission's deliberations, Millikin be haved amiably and cooperatively. But foxy Politician Millikin is no fish. By leading Randall on, he got both a diluted report and the freedom to attack it as if it were an uncompromising free-trading document. Early last week he wrote Businessman Randall a 3,500-word letter that amounted to a sweeping repudiation of the report. He craftily plucked at the report's weaknesses and dealt Randall a studied insult, as he observed that tariff revisions are made by the Senate Finance Committee, not the Randall commission...
...virility, but we do not consider our amorous pursuits a mere program of nationalized procreation. To say that our off spring will be "short and squat, with their eyes close together" is an intolerable conjecture. Do you seriously believe that such a hardy stock will bear your personal insult without seeking some measure of revenge...
...most of his creative lifetime, Sculptor Jacob Epstein has been outraging public commentators on good taste and good morals with his lumpish, aggressively individualistic statuary. G. K. Chesterton denounced his Ecce Homo as an "insult"; the London Times called his Genesis "repellent." Such criticism has convinced Epstein that he is a persecuted, misunderstood genius, denied the recognition due to one of the world's greatest living sculptors. Last week an accolade came to Epstein which should convince him that the world now acknowledges him both as an artist and as a public figure of standing and respect...
...Famed today mostly for Undergraduate Thomas Brown's off-the-cuff insult: I do not love thee, Doctor Fell The reason why I cannot tell; But this alone 1 know full well, I do not love thee, Doctor Fell...
These relics were not meant as a vulgar insult to President Jefferson. They were zoological samplings from Meriwether Lewis and William Clark,* of the U.S. Army, out to explore Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase. Every U.S. schoolboy has heard of them, but the seven volumes of their journals have long been the private browsing grounds of historical grubbers. Now Pulitzer Prize winner Bernard (Across the Wide Missouri) DeVoto has cut them down to everyman's size, restored the great adventure to the common reader...