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When the proceedings began in the Hotel Fort Des Moines, nobody could be sure what the end would bring. Up until then A.V.C. had followed a loose, sweeping "Statement of Intentions" with a notable, laudable motto: "Citizens first, veterans second...
When reporting on Unitarians, you must remember that the principle of the free mind in religion is paramount to all particular beliefs and dogmas. . . . We are not unanimous, for we insist on thinking for ourselves, without the aid or hindrance of revealed "truth" or official church pronouncements. Our motto can be well stated: "Here not all think alike, but all alike think...
Ulcers & Oedipus. Cynical Vic Norman-whose motto was: "If a thing is not worth doing at all, it's not worth doing well"-soon discovered that life with Kimberly and Maag was the nearest thing to hell on earth. In the rare intervals when he was not being Evans-ridden, desperate Partner Kimberly, who is The Hucksters' most enjoyable character, frenziedly dulled his stomach ulcers with benzedrine, double-Scotches, expensive prostitutes, and psychiatrists. "My psychiatrist tells me I'm a sex-maniac," he told Vic sadly; "but I told him that I doubted if bulls and rabbits...
Highlights among 127 Articles: The nature of the new Republic is thus defined: "France is a republic, indivisible, democratic and socially unified [sociale]. The national emblem is a tricolor flag, blue, white and red in three vertical bands. The motto of the Republic is 'Liberty, Equality, Fraternity...
Nude in Manhattan. Stieglitz played host to a reckless, determined band. In 1913, the modernists captured Manhattan's huge 69th Regiment Armory, stocked it with some 1,600 examples of French and U.S. modern art. They adopted a motto, "The New Spirit," and distributed thousands of buttons bearing the pine-tree flag of the American Revolution. Probably 250,000 people saw the "Armory Show," and for a good many the experience was horrifying. For a glimpse of Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase (see cut], they had to stand in line...