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While sitting in the ashes and donning my sackcloth, I am contemplating the achievements of mankind. We split the atom, we walked on the moon, we invented every imaginable destructive weapon of war. Now there is a new rumbling in our midst presenting a different challenge: How do we tame an angry mountain...
...Picasso was an able and gifted artist, but not yet a modern one. He had managed to tame the mannerism of the Blue Period, with its wistful elongations and neurotic passivity of form, by studying Degas. In the Woman with a Fan, 1905, with its "Egyptian" gesture of the raised hand and gravely extended fan, or in the robust columnar body of the Boy Leading a Horse, 1906, Picasso's digestion of Puvis was complete. At that point he could have kept painting such pictures for the rest of his life and died in honors...
...outcome, the Crimson owes no apologies for its final loss. Only a late third quarter burst allowed the home team, seeded second, to gain the edge needed to thwart the number seven Crimson, making its first-ever appearance in the playoffs, after drawing the tough assignment of trying to tame Hopkins on its own turf...
...last week it looked as if the President's promises of a tame little downturn for 1980 were wishful thinking. The Labor Department reported that during April the nation's jobless rate ballooned by a startling .8%, pushing unemployment to a full 7%, tossing some 825,000 workers into the street, and swelling the ranks of the nation's unemployed to 7.3 million. It was the largest rise in overall unemployment since January 1975 and the biggest climb in the jobless rate among males since 1949. Their unemployment rate leaped a full 1% during the month...
...interesting." Meanwhile, as tenants are evicted throughout the city, "there could be tremendous individual human suffering," Sullivan adds. "Twenty-five per cent of the city's apartment dwellers could be evicted in the next decade--suffering on that magnitude could make the problems before rent control took effect look tame by comparison...