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...Clearest Sketch. This sobering reflection on the limits of military power-even $70 billion worth of military power a year-calls attention to the great defect in the present U.S. world position. There is no forward motion toward a goal-no end in view. Since the political and military paths seem to offer no hope of decisive progress, the U.S. has begun-belatedly-to explore the possibilities of a broad economic advance on the part of the non-Communist world...
...recent days there have been many signs that Washington is seriously considering a major campaign on the front of world economic policy. This week Secretary of State Dulles gave the clearest sketch of Washington's embryonic plans. Said...
...what sort of punishment would fit Christopher's crime ("He broke every rule. But it was all so diabolically clever"), London's newspapers were having a field day. "What a corker!" cried the Daily Express. "Boy's Hoax Takes in All the School," said the Daily Sketch. "Even Hoaxes the Head," added the News Chronicle. Why had Christopher done it? "Things had been so frightfully dull around here," said the boy who used to be called Bumblie. "I just felt I had to stir something...
William Blake's sketch of a thief in the toils of a serpent was included in a collection of old masters' drawings at the Durlacher Gallery. It shows the British mystic at his most frightening. Blake learned Italian in old age simply to read Dante, illustrated The Divine Comedy both to complement and criticize Dante's philosophy. For Blake, hell was on earth, not in the afterworld, but still he found it real enough. In Blake's drawing of Brunelleschi, the attacking serpent is not so much an infernal punishment for Brunelleschi's thieveries...
...What we have now is not a format, but a lack of format, which makes it different. Sometimes the guest on my show will be in from the very beginning, sometimes not. It's a mixture of sketch and story line. It's pretty mixed...