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...Robust...
...charm, rather than inspiration, remained the order of the day. No wonder that Childe Hassam, William Merritt Chase, Edmund Tarbell, John Twacht-man and their colleagues have always seemed to be squeezed uncomfortably between the great Yankee realists like Eakins and Homer in the late 19th century and the robust "Ashcan" painters like Robert Henri in the early 20th...
...Bourse's robust activity follows years of anemic performance. From 1961 to 1973, a time when France's economic growth rate was among the world's fastest, the Paris stock exchange remained as flat as a French crêpe. During the autocratic presidency of Charles de Gaulle from 1958 to 1969, companies were, in effect, forced to borrow from the government-dominated banks rather than raise capital on the stock market. Referring to the Bourse's principal trading circle by nickname, De Gaulle declared icily: "France's policy is not made in the Basket...
...midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy (1943-46), virtually every man in the 14-man Politburo was a member of the power elite. Brezhnev was a major general. Andrei Gromyko was Ambassador to the U.S. Today, however, none of these tough, hard-working old leaders is exceptionally robust. Brezhnev, at 73, suffers from several illnesses, including arteriosclerosis. Alexei Kosygin, 76, has had two heart attacks. Dmitri Ustinov, 71, is currently ailing. "When Brezhnev dies the rest of the Politburo will be gone with the wind," says one Soviet bureaucrat...
...modern one. He had managed to tame the mannerism of the Blue Period, with its wistful elongations and neurotic passivity of form, by studying Degas. In the Woman with a Fan, 1905, with its "Egyptian" gesture of the raised hand and gravely extended fan, or in the robust columnar body of the Boy Leading a Horse, 1906, Picasso's digestion of Puvis was complete. At that point he could have kept painting such pictures for the rest of his life and died in honors...