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...behalf of the bourbon drinkers of America I protest. Is this spiritless, chalky liquid more worthy of the presidential accolade than my beloved bourbon-or wine, or beer, or even sake...
...Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver, President Kennedy's brother-in-law, has political ambitions, would like to run for Governor of Illinois or mayor of Chicago. Shriver hopes to squelch before they happen any embarrassing incidents in Peace Corps activities overseas, for the sake of the corps of course, and maybe with an eye to Illinois, too. Last week he forehandedly assigned an aide to "think about all the possible problems we could have anywhere and see if we can head them off." All of which could pose a "possible problem" for his kinsman in the White House: with...
...have a new issue like gambling to argue about, instead of the laws on Sunday work, indecent movies, contraceptives, and parochial schools. It's amusing to watch the litigants putting on each other's shoes and picking up each other's folls in the confusion. And for the sake of ending old sterectypes, I hope we never get them straightened...
...Fear of Luxury. In 1958, Pedersen won a $1,000 prize, and with the money he bought himself and his wife his isolated house in Jutland. But he has never forgotten the poverty of his early days. For privacy's sake, he has no phone and no radio. But he is also compulsive about not becoming accustomed to even the most modest luxury. He refuses to subscribe to a newspaper, instead reads the copy in the public library...
...mirrored the headlines but were a staple of the artistic diet. After World War II, taste in art changed, and to look at a Gropper painting became rather like rereading Grapes of Wrath. American art became less interested in humanity, downtrodden or otherwise, than in art for its own sake...