Word: subjectively
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began moving across the border. Wooden handles stamped "made south of parallel 42" were slapped into imported shovels, wooden bases with the same markings were attached to Japanese sewing machines, and all the loot found its way north to market. Most lucrative item of all was the automobile, legally subject to duties of six times or more its U.S. market value. Second-hand cars shipped to Patagonia from the U.S. were driven north across the border, repainted, equipped with forged papers and sold for profits of 800%. Total contraband within the first year: an estimated $60 million worth of cars...
When in 1947 the Italian government imposed a whopping tax on capital, Prince Pacelli and Count Pecci found themselves in an odd position. As Italian citizens, they were subject to the tax, but as diplomatic representatives of foreign powers they were specifically exempt. Experts at the Vatican State Secretariat studied the question, decided they should not have to pay, and the Vatican formally asked the Italian government to exempt them...
Epstein says that he does not start with a definite conception of his subject. Instead, he believes in allowing the sitter's character to impose itself gradually on the clay as he works. After years of portraiture, he reached the learned conclusion that "men sitters are more vain than women sitters." This may in part explain why some of Epstein's most moving pieces are portraits of women...
Flowery Charms. "Weak" was hardly the word for either creature. Mme. de Staël was a carthorse Juno with a passionate imagination: she could talk for hours on any given subject without pausing to breathe. Her lovers were so numerous that they ran concurrently, like prison sentences. Mme. Récamier, on the other hand, was bright and lovely as a peacock and quick as a lizard at dodging through chinks. "She liked to stop everything in April," said Critic Sainte-Beuve with French delicacy-meaning that Mme. Récamier drove men half-crazy by drawing them hopelessly...
Alan Wood's biography is not a definitive one. It hardly could be since the tireless octogenarian it has for its subject has already survived his biographer (who died last year) and has, since the book reached the stands, created the need for another chapter by leading the nuclear disarmament movement which is now rocking England. Even so, the author often takes too doting an attitude. Most intelligent children are somewhat saddened, for example, when they find that Euclid's axioms cannot themselves be proven; but in the disappointment of the eleven-year old Russell, Wood imagines he sees already...