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...AMERICA," remarked Gertrude Stein, "is the oldest nation in the world." America's architecture, sadly, bears out the comment. In any American city, amidst the incoherence of unrelated structures our inability to appeal to any potential modern sensibility is conspicuous. The descendants of immigrants and pioneers continue to raise disfunctional monuments in archaic styles...
HENRY JAMES, the celebrated literary expatriate of the 19th century, once described America as "a great unendowed, unfurnished, unentertained and unentertaining continent." Paris in the 1920s was mecca for a whole gallery of artistic emigres whom Gertrude Stein labeled the Lost Generation; Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Pound and Cummings led a luminous lot. Now there is a new kind of American expatriate abroad in the world, drawn from the whole spectrum of U.S. society. Collectively, they lack the glamour of their famous predecessors, and their personal motives are different: the expatriates of the 1920s left America looking for art and excitement, while...
...Herbert Stein, a member of Nixon's Council of Economic Advisers, stressed in Newport Beach, Calif., the importance of keeping wage settlements at a reasonable level. The inflationary General Motors pact underscored that need (see BUSINESS). Then the Administration announced that it would investigate an increase in crude-oil prices scheduled by Gulf and Atlantic Richfield. The inquiry, together with Stein's statement, seemed to be at least a token move toward direct Government pressure to check wage and price rises...
...American Journey, Jean Stein's new book about Robert Kennedy, Washington's grandest grande dame, crisp, canny and perennial Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 86, contributes her own distinctive views about the difference between Bobby and John F. Kennedy: "I see Jack in older years as the nice little rosy-faced old Irishman with the clay pipe in his mouth, a rather nice broth of a boy. Not Bobby. Bobby could have been a revolutionary priest...
Minimum Target. The real danger of the G.M. agreement is in its impact on other settlements. Herbert Stein, a member of the Council of Economic Advisers, said last week that "the rate of inflation from this point forward will depend on the rate of wage increases probably more than anything else." The U.A.W.'s money gains are somewhat less than those won earlier this year by the Teamsters, the construction workers and the New York Newspaper Guild. The auto raises are also below the 37% increase over three years that a presidential commission recommended last week for four railroad...