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...hill adobe is one of the few moral ways man can build on the land, the adobe comes from the land where the home is to be, it raised from the earth and still a part of it, the color is the land beneath the juniper and pinon which surround it, low to the ground and quiet, when abandoned, returns to the earth and origin. Ceilings are long log rafters covered with planks of wood, and earth above, they are low, are warm and welcome to the hand; the walls are earth and carry her warmth and rhythm fireplaces...
AFTER reading with Charles Eliot Norton's Dante Society and talking with Crawford about Italian writing, Mrs. Jack felt the need to surround herself with original Italian oils. Her pipeline to Italian art was filled by Bernard Berenson; The Tragedy of Lucretia by Botticelli was one of her first investments in her Italian art venture...
...Joint Chiefs of Staff counseled President Kennedy to launch an all-out attack on Russia even after the crisis was over. In contrast to this, a Russian attempt to oppose our use of nuclear brinkmanship-which the U. S. employed to assert that it alone has the right to surround other countries with nuclear weapons-suggests a triumph of moderation...
...disregarding its failings, by finding four good things for every bad. She loves interior decorating, and is blithely unconscious that her metallic designs are inherited from her world. She loves skiing and swimming and horseback-riding, while ignoring the gas stations and telephone wires and Negro gardeners that surround her at the Concord...
...rumor circulated yesterday afternoon that police were planning to surround and cordon off the building to prevent more supplies from entering and to force the occupants to leave. However, by 4 p. m.-the time of the anticipated maneuver-nothing had happened...