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Refreshment for the Eye. A tailor's son, Renoir went to work at 14, painting teacups. Chances are he even enjoyed that, as he certainly enjoyed the rest of his increasingly successful career. Long before he died, some of his canvases were selling at five-figure prices. He painted about 4,000, of which half are now in U.S. collections. Every one has to do with the good things of life, particularly the loveliness of women, children and flowers. They are the work of a simple man with extraordinary command of his craft, who aimed to please...
...Witcutt, son of a Staffordshire merchant tailor, was studying law at Birmingham University when the attraction of G.K. Chesterton's anti-industrial theory of "Distributism" led him to Rome. Distributists took one look at the misery of the workingman and concluded that large-scale industry should be abolished in favor of a social-industrial structure more like that of the Middle Ages...
...with the crowd; the President doffed the dented grey hat and swept it gracefully across his middle, essaying a courtly bow. "Hey, Ike," came a shout from another quarter, and there stood Richard and James ("Shorty") Walsh, wizened, pixylike Irishmen who had worked 50 years in the West Point tailor's shop, and remembered fitting the Eisenhower uniform when the President was a plebe back in 1911. For a military man it was an unexpected thing to do, but the President broke ranks at once, jog-trotted clear out of the parade, and began gagging with the Walshes; when...
...great merit of Duggan's Caesar is that he is not a tailor's dummy draped in a thesis. Professional historians from Tacitus to Mommsen have cloaked Caesar in dissertations about one-man power, the Roman constitution, and the pros and cons of emperors and empires. On the other hand, Duggan feels no need to give Caesar a coating of grease paint so he can strut the stage. Author Duggan has grasped the elusive obvious, that great men are measured by heritage, not histrionics. As Duggan sees it, Caesar's enduring heritage was divided into three parts...
...this jumble of sales talk, two facts are becoming increasingly clear. First, there is now little doubt that in the long run the West must tailor its policy to fit the growing German demands for reunification. If it fails to do so in time, the Germans may well buy some Russian plan which will give them reunification at great cost to their independence and their freedom to ally with the West. On the other hand, it is also evident that at the moment the United States will have to maintain its traditional policy--an insistence that a reunified Germany have...