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Thus her Dictionary of Received Ideas seems to have tapped a main vein. Holzer is the modern version -- rewired, subsidized, eagerly collected, but still recognizable -- of those American maidens who, a century ago, passed their hours stitching improving texts on samplers: THOU GOD SEEST ME, ABC, XYZ. The main differences are that instead of using biblical texts, Holzer writes her own, and that instead of using needle and thread, she inscribes them in LEDs and marble. Once Old Nick made work for idle hands; today the art market does...
...Henry Ford II, David Rockefeller, Roger Blough and Crawford Greenewait. Johnson talked of a "golden opportunity" for the economy to achieve its full potential in the coming months, and invited them to help him realize it. "In the Old Testament," he said, "there is a verse which says: 'Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.*I can promise you that if you are diligent in your business, this President will always be pleased to stand with you-anywhere, any time." This sort of talk made most...
...Night that here thou seest...
...seest, write in a book and send it unto...
Dost thou hear, Hal? thou knowest in the state of innocency Adam fell; and what should poor Jack Falstaff do in the days of villainy? Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty...