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...Production of goods and services, discounted for inflation, will rise about 6.2% for the year. That will make 1976 a year of growth after the longest downturn since 1947-48; real gross national product dropped 2% in 1974 and probably will be down a shade under 3% in 1975. But the growth rate will slow at least a bit by the end of 1976, unless Government policy changes unexpectedly...
...more successful series culminates in "Planes by Colors: Large Nude" (1909-10). Here the simply conceived form of the reclining woman in the sketch is amplified by the free, expressive use of color--green highlights, purple-pink shade. The personality seen in the line is universalized by the abstraction of the color: the painting is a vibrant whole...
...high-ranking manager of General Motors, whose Vauxhall subsidiary is faring only a shade better than Chrysler U.K., already is asking how his company can compete if Chrysler gets government money at, say, 2% interest...
...became Santa Fe's Johnny Appleseed, importing shade trees, fruits and vegetables, which he shared with the en tire countryside. He cultivated the arts as well: diocesan schools taught not only languages, history and mathematics but also music as a regular part of the cur riculum. He even sponsored material progress: when the railroad threatened to bypass Santa Fe, Lamy joined a group to raise capital for a spur...
Full perfume of the swamp, indeed. Whether a scholar who writes in so deep a shade of purple can even comprehend shame is uncertain. Yet Wolfs conclusion has some merit. Stoker, who was secretary to the actor Sir Henry Irving, shrewdly swotted Transylvanian geography and vampire lore at the British Museum reading room. His gleanings provided a European psychohistory before the term was coined, covering half-remembered terrors with gothic cobwebs. Stoker wrote several other romances of no particular power, but in Dracula he managed to create a classic, forever stalking his readers when their moral and rational defenses...