Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...want to thank TIME for the one sensible description of the Argentine situation [July 8] I have read in American news media. Everybody seems to stress the rupture of democracy, not realizing that there are things more damaging to a country than that, like the utter demoralization of the people arising from lack of leadership, economic chaos and a policy of "do nothing" that Argentina cannot afford...
...with forms in the book. What has all this to do with mutual funds? Nothing. The majority of trusts set up by my readers cost nothing beyond the $4.95 paid for the book. Butter up the bar if you want to, but before you write about a book, read...
Discipline is Mobutu's way of life. He rises at dawn every morning, takes a breakfast consisting mainly of Eno's Fruit Salts, a sparkling laxative, then settles down for an hour to read the biographies of the world's political and military leaders ("to know how they acted in difficult times"). His own most difficult problem is reconstruction of the northeast Congo, which the two-year Simba rebellion left in ruins. An average of 400 refugees a day are still pouring into Kisangani (formerly Stanleyville), which is itself a city half dead: half its shops...
...search for well-ordered things," said Poussin, and he found his order in Greco-Roman antiquity. Of provincial birth in Normandy, he was not able until the age of 30 to get to Rome, the world's art capital during his lifetime. There he sketched ancient ruins, read the classic Latin poetry of Ovid, dissected cadavers to learn anatomy, copied the works of Raphael...
July 26: Ralph Ellison, author of the Invisible Man, who will read from a novel now in progress...