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Some figures from the Federal Energy Office sketch the situation. In January, Energy Czar William E. Simon told the recent 13-nation Washington energy conference, world oil production ran at 46.2 million bbl. per day, or 1.6 million bbl. below September, the last month before the Arab production cutbacks. FEO figures also indicate that January oil imports to the U.S. fell 1.14 million bbl. per day below September. The obvious conclusion, though Simon himself did not draw it, is that the U.S. is suffering around three-fourths of the world petroleum shortfall. Supplies available to be imported by other...
...office of the presidency, perhaps also out of genuine empathy for him in his lonely predicament, however self-inflicted, the Congress gave Nixon a more than perfunctory welcome. As he extolled the accomplishments of his five years in office with campaign-style hyperbole and drew an unrealistically cheery sketch of the current state of the union, he was applauded 36 times...
...humor Wright injects into his five cartoons a week is chiefly black. His work schedule is no laughing matter either. He gets to the office each day by 10 a.m., hoping to settle on a subject by noon and an idea of treatment by midafternoon. After showing a preliminary sketch to his editor, he often labors over the drawing past midnight to meet his 7 a.m. deadline. "I'm very slow," he says. "I've had no formal art training at all, so I'm still struggling with my style." Lacerating though he and some...
...plainer about how he operates within his chosen limits. His 20th work of fiction, the book is not truly a novel but a set of stories loosely linked by principal characters who happen to be members of the same Wall Street law firm. Each incidental anecdote and character sketch is arranged to show how time and change have affected the values and manners of Auchincloss's narrowing circle...
...borrowed some of its words from Chinese art, but paintings like these make one realize how the terms have suffered in transit. To speak, for instance, of the "calligraphy" of a Western artist-Pollock's dripped skeins of paint, or the brisk rhythmic jotting of a Rembrandt sketch -is to use a metaphor. In classical Chinese painting, it is not. The wen-jen used the same brush for painting and writing, the same ink, the same habits of mind. The distinction between word and image, which is one of the sharpest divisions in our culture, barely existed for them...