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...hear: "The great future of the artistic movement of this country must inevitably take its leadership from the Southwest and Far West . . . Perhaps you here in your part of the country are not aware of . . . how much of a breath of fresh air you are blowing into the stagnant and inconsequential backwaters of the large Eastern cities . . . Make the best of our world and rejoice in it, rather than attempt to transplant a dying Europeanism...
...Stevenson, titular leader of the Democratic Party. In his Detroit speech were the usual Stevenson quips and quibbles, but also there-and available for Democrats everywhere to hang onto-was a hard and fast line: 1) the Republican Administration, on its record, has permitted the domestic economy to become stagnant and has caused the U.S. to lose prestige abroad, and 2) only a Democratic Congress can make things right...
...knowledge rests more heavily than in any other area of the educational system. In the realm of higher education the American right to question, to explore, to express, to examine and re-examine, is of necessity exercised continually. Were it not so, our diverse intellectual resources would become stagnant...
...stagnant air over the mountain-hemmed area, ordinarily harmless chemicals rise from factory chimneys, auto exhausts, backyard incinerators at the rate of 3,100 tons a day. Under strong sunshine, the chemicals react with one another and with molecules of ozone (O 3 ) to form a low-hanging, acrid pall, irritating to humans and damaging to crops...
...finishing touches on a comprehensive plan to make over the French economy-basically healthy but stagnant, timid and backward-looking-which he will present to the National Assembly this week. This may prove his toughest fight...