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What did him in? For the Victorians, the growing belief that his piety was hypocritical. More seriously, Reni's frequent combination of tepid high- mindedness and relentless self-repetition looked insincere to early 20th century eyes. The classicism of his languidly yearning saints, rolling their eyeballs to the light of heaven, seemed trite and formulaic...
...that a work ethic gone mad. "Work has become trendy," observes Jim Butcher, a management consultant for the Boston Consulting Group. But he and other professionals acknowledge the toll that such a relentless pace takes on creativity. No instrument, no invention, can emit an utterly original thought. "I flew 80,000 miles last year," says economist James Smith of the Rand Corp. "You start losing touch with things. My work is research, which at its best is contemplative. If you get into this mode of running around, you don't have time to reflect...
...more than a year, the government of President Jose Sarney has been under relentless attack from environmental activists worldwide. They charge that its policies are not only resulting in the wanton destruction of Brazil's forest, its wildlife and its native peoples, but are also endangering the world environment. Scientists say the fires set by ranchers and homesteaders in the Amazon region are spewing into the atmosphere 7% of the carbon dioxide responsible for the global warming process known as the greenhouse effect...
Those days are long gone. Last week's panics over poisoned grapes and tainted apples were merely the latest in a relentless series of food scares. Anyone who reads newspapers or watches TV knows that invisible dangers lurk in every aisle of the grocery store. Shoppers have been told that the produce is peppered with pesticides, the boxes and cans packed with treacherous additives, the meat stuffed with powerful drugs, the chickens spattered with bacteria, and the fish steeped in chemical wastes. Even the cool, clear water that comes out of every kitchen tap is suspected of being a witch...
Konovalchik's relentless determination on the mat and in the wrestling room has pointed the younger wrestlers on the right track, enthused the veteran wrestlers and made Peckham's job a lot easier...