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...Democrats and Republicans on the committee thrust and parried in the dramatic duel, the testimony turned complex. Only a few basic facts had not yet been disputed. The Government, under the aggressive McLaren, had begun moving against ITT in 1969, trying to prevent the nation's eighth largest industrial corporation from expanding. McLaren, determined to pursue the issues to the Supreme Court, wanted clarification of the Government's powers to limit the growth of conglomerates-a matter on which the court had never ruled. In the early summer of 1971, San Diego had little interest in bidding...
...driven to make up for what seems to them a deficiency. That they feel keenly, though unconsciously, their inability to bear children is shown in dreams reported on the analyst's couch, in the behavior of small boys who play with dolls and walk around with their stomachs thrust forward in imitation of their pregnant mothers and in primitive rites and ancient myths. According to these myths, presumably conceived by males, Adam delivered Eve from his rib cage, Zeus gave birth to Athena out of his head, and when Semele was burned to death, Zeus seized Dionysus from...
Many youths found themselves unable to think of the girls thrust into their midst as anything but "mindless playmates" traditionally reserved for weekend dating. "Coeds are like Christmas-tree decorations or something," one student told them. "They're just sort of there, and I don't particularly want to get involved with them...
...Presidential candidates are on the ballot. Muskie and Eugene McCarthy. Muskie is likely to win in the non-binding Presidential Preference Primary, but McCarthy's backers are hoping to add anti-Muskie votes to Clean Gene's base of support. Perhaps a strong McCarthy showing in Illinois will thrust him back into the thick of things, but probably...
...both a Cartesian and a sensualist, Matisse wasted nothing. Feeling, for him, included a great deal that flat paint could not convey-notably the awareness of thick, monumental volume, of the thrust and jut of shapes by which human frames state their energy. The proper vehicle for this was sculpture, where volume is real and not-as in painting-illusion. The result, despite the small scale that Matisse preferred in works like Reclining Nude III, was the most Michelangelesque collection of sculpture that any 20th century artist has produced...