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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Herter said that the present Administration had balanced the budget, but that it was under attack for not spending enough money on social and humanitarian services. Spending more money for such things as schools, social security, and public power "would obviously mean either an unbalanced budget or higher taxes," the Governor said...
...interested in TIME'S suggested interpretation of Paul Klee's High Water-Wood [Sept. 17]. Modern art can mean different things to different people. Tip the picture to the left and you can see Woman eternally holding Man in her fingers. Judging from their expressions, neither one is too happy about this situation...
This line is that Stalin was fundamentally right in keeping the satellite and foreign parties completely subservient to Moscow's will, and that any relaxation of this attitude, as happened in Poland, means big trouble and may mean final disintegration of the Soviet empire. In opposition to this view stands First Party Secretary Khrushchev, backed by Presidium Member Mikoyan and other top anti-Stalinists, who believe that a certain autonomy must be given the satellite and foreign parties-and have been giving it. .Khrushchev's spectacular destalinization program launched last February gave him a dramatic lead over...
...lover with a high taste and a low budget, the current renaissance of color lithography has proved a golden mean between expensive originals and photographed reproductions. The reason is simple. A colored lithograph, drawn by the artist on a flat stone or plate, can be cranked off by hand press, then signed and numbered to produce as many "originals" as the artist wants. The price drops accordingly, but each impression equally represents the artist's direct touch and workmanship...
...literary defects as well as any of his critics. Of his prolixity, he confessed that if he were reporting a crime, "the murderer would be in Canada before I had finished describing where the body was found." But he also knew that tidiness and brevity - for him - could mean disaster. To Perkins he wrote: "Restrain my adjectives, by all means, discipline my adverbs, moderate the technical extravagances of my incondite exuberance, but don't derail the train, don't take the Pacific Limited and switch it down the siding towards Hogwart Junction...