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...reasoning a completely truthful one? I think not. Art' doesn't really defer to life; it does the reverse: it puts it into question. If an artist really believed in the supremacy of his condition (whose essence is mortality) why would he for a moment go through all the toil of creating an object whose whole intent is to last forever, to be immortal? We find these representative lines in a Shakespearian sonnet: "But thine eternal summer shall not fade/ Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st." Shakespeare, were he deferring to nature, would rejoice in the mortality...
...father of four: "God will help us. We will get jobs." Throughout most of Latin America, there is a flight from the harsh land. Bet ter than 50% of the region's arable land is in the hands of only 1½% of the owners; most campesinos toil like serfs on big estates for less than $50 a year...
...dearth" of teachers is a strong factor behind these low standards, Ch'ang decides. "Any work is better than teaching; naturally they (college professors) have no heart for teaching." This lack of desire results from "very low salaries." Many teachers are forced to become "walters, to toil as farm hands, or to act as circus clowns...
...Detroit, and following art classes in Florence, Charlotte Ford, 20, self-starting daughter of Automaker Henry Ford II, came to Manhattan for the best of everything. Hired to help separate the chic from the gauche for the prestigious decorating firm of McMillen Inc., the shapely new Ford breadwinner will toil a five-day (9t05) week, room with two friends in an upper East Side apartment. "Miss Ford," announced her socialite boss, Eleanor Brown, "will have equal rank with our staff members who have had special training in interior design. We feel that her exceptional background, education and travel entitle...
Headed by scholarly Philip B. Gove. 59, a onetime English teacher at New York University, Merriam-Webster's Ph.D.-proud editors toil in a Georgian edifice in Springfield, Mass., that looks more like a college library than a company HQ. They began collecting a new batch of commonly used words before their last edition came out (complete with a misspelling-Brünnehilde...