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...fundamentally, he is a brother-under-the-skin to followers, say, of the Brooklyn Dodgers. All he wants is to win. He will not say of a losing coach, 'Trow da bum out,' but he will remark firmly, 'Kindly show the gentleman to the door...
...World. One remark of Emerson's applies very well to Hopper's own paintings: "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." Hopper is clearly a genius of this kind; he paints not only what Amer icans have seen from the corners of their eyes, but also what they have dimly thought and felt about...
...government last month for blocking the promotion of a colleague who had founded a magazine critical of Turkey's economic plight. To Feyzioglu, the government's action against the professor was a serious blow "to the principle of university autonomy." In almost any other country such a remark might have gone unnoticed. But it was too much for Premier Adnan Menderes...
...Tommy, they got me this time," President Somoza said to U.S. Ambassador Thomas Whelan the night he was shot down. That remark recalls the one the President made when I told him I was retiring [in January 1945] as U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua. It was early morning, and he was in his hammock being shaved. He turned his head and said: "Jeemmy, do you realize that in the two and one half years you have been in Managua I have not once said 'no' to you?" It was true. During those war years, I had made many requests...
When Harry Truman made this remark to a Boston audience nine days ago, he was being more than humble. Indeed, Truman was being painfully frank about a major political question--Can Truman help the Democratic party in the 1956 campaign...