Word: saying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ECKSTEIN: That, I think, is a bit too sanguine. It is too simple to say that once you break inflationary expectations, the problem is solved. We just will not get a quick improvement...
Louis Salzberg would also do it all over again, "twice, if necessary," he says, "because Uncle Sam should have cracked the whip and put these people away a long time ago." In Salzberg's case, it was the FBI that first got in touch with him nearly three years ago. A staff photographer for New York City's Spanish-language newspaper El Tiempo, he was asked if he would be interested in passing photographs of possible subversives along to the Bureau. "If we're talking about Commies, about Reds," he recalls telling an agent, "then fine...
HELLER: There is no earthly way-maybe there is a heavenly way-to achieve price stability or to disinflate without knocking people out of jobs. When you talk about moving from, say, 3.5% to 4.5% unemployment, that means an other 830,000 people will be knocked out of work. They are not likely to be the skilled and the semiskilled and the strong. They will probably be those workers who are the weakest links in the employment chain, potentially the most disruptive links in the social and political chain...
...Year of the Pig is ultimately confounded by its own sense of outrage. Such a partisan representation of history is better known by the much-abused term propaganda, and its message gets across to those who come into the theater already in sympathy with what it has to say...
Last year in Texas, 44 paintings in the collection of Dallas Oilman Algur Hurtle Meadows turned out to be phonies. Most duped collectors are usually so sore in their pride that they say nothing or try to recoup quietly. Others, who have unwittingly donated forgeries to museums for big tax write-offs, discover that discretion is the better part of value. Not A. H. Meadows. After publicly calling himself "Mr. Sap," he pressed charges. Investigations led to the discovery of one of the most successful art swindles in modern history...