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...life, Johnson feels the biographer must make himself acquainted with a large body of facts. The facts, however, have their principal value in leading to an understanding of the biography as a whole. Their worth lies not in the learning of detail for its own sake...
...fins," emphatically no. As John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in The Liberal Hour, "There is no assurance merely from expanding output per se that the benefit will accrue to those at the bottom of the pyramid who need the goods the most." Kennedy's call for growth for growth's sake, or merely to out produce the Russians, is, for some, another grave weakness in his campaign...
...must be remembered at all times that he is still their candidate--has embraced is not the easiest and most comfortable for the American people to adopt. He has embraced it, and the liberals have embraced it, in the belief that it is a necessary one for the sake of survival. Therefore, Kennedy is not forthright when he emphasizes only the benefits of his program and not the sacrifices that self-indulgent American consumers must out of decency and necessity make...
...impressionists. He agreed with Gauguin that form existed not in nature but in the mind, and that form and color had a life of their own quite independent of subject matter. His apparently cluttered pictures were actually delicate mosaics in which color was used for its own sake and a carefully constructed design was imposed upon reality. As a watercolorist, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts ranks him with Winslow Homer and Marin; as an artist, the museum dubs him America's "first modern...
...which these machines, according to Schaeffer, "are not yet capable of performing accurately." ¶ Coagulation tests at one laboratory were conducted on blood samples collected in special tubes supplied to doctors by the lab; the tubes contained oxalate, a chemical agent which prevents coagulation. ¶ For the sake of speed, some labs resorted to "sink tests," simply poured samples down a drain and blandly reported "negative" results to the doctors who had requested analysis...