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...Henry J. Taylor. Taylor had phoned Schlesinger to ask whether his outside writing was not in conflict with the executive order. Somewhere along the line, Arthur called Taylor an idiot, and said: "It is obvious to me that I write for people who have higher intellectual qualities than you possess." Finally, Schlesinger hung up on Taylor. And in his column, Taylor hung one on Schlesinger. "Any citizen,'' he wrote, "who thinks for one minute that the risks in general from the Schlesinger mentality, operating in abundance at the policy level, are overstated is tragically, tragically mistaken...
Tractitioning, as earnest LeRoy Cluff Major, 46, practices it, consists of planning every aspect of a housing development with a staff of specialists such as few builders possess-or can afford. In the 16 years since he went into tractitioning. Major and his employees have drawn up designs for 400,000 houses in 15 states from North Carolina to Hawaii...
...Take any two Massachusetts politicians, stand them side by side," someone once said, "and you'll discover that are likely to have only two things in common: first, they will both possess a secret but endearing love for the 'corruption' and, second, they will be members of the same family...
American journalism does not possess any agency to guard its standards and supervise its practitioners. A newspaper publisher can give criminal advice, lie to the public, poison its intelligence without being held accountable for his conduct...
...garde Revue Blanche his own brand of action painting. "I approach my painting with only a vague idea of what I want to present. Let's say: the image of a cool, benign forest opening towards the sea. Now I am beginning. With my spatula (I do not possess any brushes) I throw on colors, distributing them and mixing them right on the surface. I am mixing many colors, fourteen, fifteen perhaps, evolving a labyrinth of hues and shapes. Finally, the entire surface is swimming in color. I retreat a few steps to look at my work...