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...customer, which is heading toward its best year since 1955. Detroit would have been buying more steel lately-though not enough to revive the whole industry-had it not bought so much last winter as a hedge against a possible steel strike. Those supplies took quite a while to melt down. The automakers' stockpiles of steel are now close to the bone, and Detroit at long last is beginning to increase its orders...
...unerring sense of composition: anything that interferes with "the essence" of a picture is ruthlessly eliminated. He prefers winter over summer, because in winter the trees are naked and the earth more fully revealed. Even his colors are kept from distracting: they are evening hues that melt into the canvas...
...Inness' paintings turn stormy. Usually they were tranquil scenes in which rivers rippled rather than roared, and the winds that ruffled the trees were rarely rougher than breezes. As the years passed, Inness softened his outlines until all the shapes and forms of nature seemed about to melt together. At their best, his paintings have a rare dreamlike unity: every tree and bush is in its place, but never so greedy for attention as to jolt the overall harmony...
...inventions that, disappointingly, have yet to appear on the market: ultrasonic washers that would clean without water, thermoelectric devices that would use power to produce heat and cold with no moving parts, portable radio telephones. Any of these would help to generate a new wave of consumer buying and melt unemployment...
Inspired Guess. Thus Spengler proposes that the music of Mozart and "the glad fairyland of Moorish columns that seem to melt in air'' are contemporary because they express the golden flowering of two comparable cultures (Western and Middle Eastern). In Western culture (which Spengler regards as entirely separate from Greco-Roman), Cecil John Rhodes's campaign to exploit Africa is made equivalent to Caesar's foray into Gaul. Both mark the start of expansionist drives that Spengter sees as the beginning of the culture's final decline...