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...toad out of his holster, and you never quite believe that he can draw thrice in the time it takes ordinary men to draw once. And you shouldn't. For this is not the legendary West, but the tall-tale West, where realistic detail is introduced merely to lend credence to one of the year's most expert whoppers...
Aloof Abstraction. The material is mostly drawn from Italian museums and churches, and it has its gaps, caused by the inimitable pigheadedness of Italian art bureaucracy. Thus Ravenna would not lend the most important single Byzantine object in Italy, the 6th century ivory throne of Maximian. All the same, one could not wish for a better introduction to Byzantine influence in Italy-not only the works made in Constantinople and then imported or looted, but also the ones made by the artists of the Adriatic coast. All the canons of Byzantine style are there: the liturgical stateliness of form...
...qualify for benefits. Others found that changing jobs or being put on layoff could deprive them of their benefits. The disappearance of a company through collapse or merger, or the bankruptcy of its pension fund because of inept or corrupt management (some pension officers have been known to lend money to friends or relatives at low interest) could leave veteran workers with little retirement income or none. In one celebrated pension catastrophe, when the Studebaker auto factory in South Bend, Ind., closed in 1963, 4,500 workers under age 60 were able to collect only 15% of the benefits they...
...jitters were high on the agenda of government bankers from the U.S., Western Europe and Japan when they gathered in Basel, Switzerland, last week for a meeting at the Bank for International Settlements, a sort of central bankers' central bank. The central bankers reportedly agreed "in principle" to lend money to bail out private banks caught in a liquidity squeeze just as the U.S. Federal Reserve has kept Franklin National in business by lending it more than $1 billion. However, they specifically ruled out aid for banks caught in "irresponsible" foreign exchange dealings. The decision was no comfort...
...well-informed public has decided roughly where it wants to be led; or does a leader appear first to tell the public where it wants to be led? Woodrow Wilson held that leadership is "interpretation" or articulation: "The forces of the public thought may be blind; [the leader] must lend them sight; they may blunder; he must set them right." But Wilson cautioned that the leader must not get too far ahead of his public: "He must read the common thought; he must test and calculate very circumspectly the preparation of the nation for the next move in politics...