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...past their recognition. The fine, wood-panelled dining-hall on Quincy Street cleans the surface of the scholar's conscience with the polish of good manners, decent bearings, and appropriate understatement of his discontent. Clean silver, cool sherbet, slivers of lime and fabric of seer-sucker, ladies and gentlemen slender and adept: they learn to be the managers of their own self-introspection and self-accusation. Should they become intolerably disturbed, someone in the Mental Health Department of the pre-paid medical plan will tell them that their guilt is of neurotic origin and ought not be given opportunity...
...increase production, most of it for its compacts, Nova and Omega, and its sub-compact Vega. Ford has started a $250 million construction program to boost output of its Pintos, Comets and Mavericks. Chrysler is also expanding production facilities for its Valiant and Dart compacts. To fatten the relatively slender profits from smaller cars, manufacturers are loading the 1974 compacts with all kinds of optional items, such as luxurious vinyl and woodgrain interiors and air conditioners...
...road to justice. He banked that Chile's tradition of stable democracy and the historical neutrality of the armed forces would protect Popular Unity from extra-legal moves from the right. He adhered to strict legality, hoping that the success of the socialist programs would gradually add to his slender mandate until socialism was backed by a clear majority...
...fighting, the French were ready to pull out of Viet Nam. Gamal Abdel Nasser took over as Premier of Egypt. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. And on an April afternoon when the Army-McCarthy hearings were dominating network television, a slender black teen-ager from Mobile, Ala., named Henry Louis Aaron hit his first major league home...
Meschers, 1951, was one result. Originally a scene of green pine trees and blue sea, it became a brisk mosaic of slender, bladelike forms set with cunning ambiguity between figure and field, in a matrix of dark ultramarine. A very "European" painting in its reference to the sharp edges and rich color of Matisse's paper cutouts, it is less so in its novel use of concealed chance...