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Dunham eventually remarries, after a harrowing period in which Katherine and an older brother are farmed out haphazardly to a succession of relations. But the new wife is plain and the family poor. Dunham withdraws into brooding resentment, emerging now and then to tongue-lash his wife and belt-whip his children...
While Britain's postwar generation of Angry Young Men lash themselves into a low-powered tantrum over the grubby, provincial world they have inherited in the Brave New World of socialism, a group of young realist painters, known as the "Kitchen-Sinkers," celebrate with gusto the seamy world of cluttered kitchen tables precisely because it is "common to everyone." It is a world in which the plumber is hero, being both "a craftsman and a necessity." A good part of the Kitchen-Sink work looks as if a plumber could have painted it, including some still lifes that focus...
...great majority of the world's economists strongly oppose both the gold standard and a price hike. Says a top U.S. Treasury officer: "The full gold standard is oldfashioned, impracticable, a discipline enforced with the lash. The world has moved on without it." In place of that rigid discipline, nations have built up flexible disciplines better suited to control the ups and downs of the complex modern world, such as the International Monetary Fund. Opponents of return to the standard of a quarter of a century ago insist that the U.S. is already as near to a gold standard...
...important in today's world is the health of a nation's economy, the real rise in its national income, the strength of its built-in fiscal controls. Most nations now have learned the heavy price of unsound financial and fiscal policies; they no longer need the lash of gold...
...distance greater than two miles. Messett won in 18:40, but Benjamin took second, eight seconds behind. A check with the record book showed that Benjamin's 18:48.4 was nearly 29 seconds better than the listed American four-mile mark, a 19:17.3 effort by Don Lash, one of the U. S.'s all-time greats, in 1937. Benjamin's performance was immediately submitted to the A.A.U for official recognition...