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...point last week, Administration fiscal journeymen let it be known that, just in case the present "inflation" turns into something more serious, they already are drawing up plans to increase both personal and corporate taxes. But neither of these is attractive-especially in a congressional election year. Therefore Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler swiftly denied that any such studies were under way, inveighed against "the same voices which have been historically preoccupied with inflation-they were apprehensive about inflation...
...Joan of Arc was 17 when she took Orléans from the English, and Ivan the Terrible was the same age when he hounded the boyars to death and had himself crowned czar. But for ordinary people, particularly under the long-prevalent guild system of apprentices and journeymen, life was a slow progression toward experience and eventual reward...
Forced to learn from local journeymen artists, Copley unwittingly developed a native vision. His metallic colors, hard lines and precise realism produced steely likenesses of such colonial worthies as Paul Revere, Samuel Adams, John Hancock. Learning by trial and error, he made his clients sit for as many as 900 hours while he perfected their portraits. Rates were strictly by size: "Whole lengths 40 guineas, half lengths 20, ¼ pieces or busts...
...language, and most members of the audience have little more than a basic vocabulary consisting of amore morire, andia-mo, bene, coraggio, preghiera; Götter, Liebe, Tod, Sturm, Blut; merveille, sourire, larmes, yeux. English-language performances usually do not help because the translation is too often done by journeymen rather than by competent poets. As it is, the operagoer has the simple duty, to himself and to the work, of glancing at a libretto before he attends a foreign-language performance...
Psychological warfare is as much a part of boxing as the diets of raw steak, and before every fight the camps are full of scary stories about the mayhem inflicted on sparring partners. The journeymen pugs hired as sparring mates are not paid to make the star look bad−even if they could. Yet those in Liston's camp seem to stand in genuine awe of the 30-year-old giant who may yet prove to be one of the most powerful fighters in history. In training since the first week in May, he has trimmed...