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...member of the Council of Economic Advisers, Herbert Stein, an advocate of free markets, argued long and hard against controls on wages and prices. But when he was summoned in mid-August to the weekend Camp David summit at which the pay-price freeze was slapped together, he recalls, "I felt a sense of exhilaration. I left all sorts of conventional notions behind." Working almost straight through from 7 p.m. Friday to noon Saturday, he drafted position papers on the options facing President Nixon; on Saturday night he wrote summaries so trenchant that, with only slight editing, they were handed...
...politics and money and newspapers and race and cigarettes lit up and put out, one suspects, is a function of her insecurity as a woman in dealing with a man's world. One wonders about the convolutions and distractions of woman's writing in the thirties and forties. Gertrude Stein, and even Anais Nin. In her next novel, Eudora Welty should imitate the solidity, the involvement with things that matter in One Time. One Place. And she is writing another novel...
...DREYFUS THIRD CENTURY FUND is the newest addition to the mutual fund empire of Howard Stein. Third Century's portfolio analysts will use a complex system of weighted criteria. Firms will be ranked according to the concern they exhibit for consumers, the environment, occupational safety and equal employment opportunity. The companies with the highest ratings will then be examined in light of normal investment standards...
Immovable Object. If everything Picasso painted up to 1906 were subtracted, it would leave no real gap in the history of modern art. But in that year Picasso began his advance to Cubism. Perhaps the first unqualified masterpiece in his career was his portrait of Gertrude Stein (14). "Picasso," Stein recalled, "sat very tight on his chair and very close to the canvas, and on a very small palette, which was of uniform brown-gray color, mixed some more brown gray and the painting began...
...Woman Ironing-1904; 7. At the Lapin Agile-1905; 8. The Family of Saltimbanques-1905; 9. Boy with a Pipe-1905; 10. Boy Leading a Horse-1905-06; 11. La Fillette à la Boule-1905; 12. Standing Female Nude- 1906; 13. Self-Portrait-1906; 14. Portrait of Gertrude Stein -1906; 15. Study for Demoiselles d'Avignon...