Word: train
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...murder of his daughter Valerie in September-comes down hard on the immediate, largely non-ideological issues. Percy emphasizes inflation, tight money and racial disorders, condemns Douglas' you-never-had-it-so-good refrain as "materialistic," and largely untrue; last week Percy launched a four-day whistle-stop train trip through downstate areas...
...invariably passed on through the price structure. He pays for lack of planning and inept regulation as his cities become concrete deserts where only autos and auto parks seem to thrive. If he is a businessman, the cost of inefficiency may be high. A 65-m.p.h. train can move steel slabs from the furnaces of Lackawanna, N.Y., and deliver them still hot at an Indiana rolling mill, but mix-ups and wrongly thrown switches sometimes cause freight cars to get lost for as much as seven weeks. High-speed, $15 million ocean ships lie idle for days in port while...
...tickets for a hit show, and Eugene Gant, far from being intimidated by the problem of white flannels, would have his Dacron boxer shorts laundered by the staff of the Americana Hotel. Sinclair Lewis' The Man Who Knew Coolidge would be hospitalized for logorrhea long before his train reached Bumpkinsville. The provincialism of Gopher Prairie and booster clubs, of Mencken's "booboisie" and Lewis' Babbittry, which believed that the outside world began at the end of Main Street and thought of Dante as "that Dago poet," is as dead as the America of button shoes and chicken...
Wyeth's largest retrospective show to date, 223 works, is currently on view in Philadelphia's 161-year-old Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.* At the opening, he received the academy's gold medal, the 36th winner in the train of artists like Winslow Homer, Whistler and Sargent, recalled: "I was twelve years old when my father first brought me to the academy, and I . . ." Then he could say no more and sat down...
Music for Music. Nadien is son of Golden Boy. Raised in Manhattan, he is the offspring of an undefeated bantamweight boxer who fought the champion to a draw, then gave up the ring to appease his wife and train his son in his own first love, the violin. David soloed with the New York Philharmonic at 14, later combined his concert career with studio work, often recording from seven to nine hours at a crack. His new job means a cut of about $15,000 in his yearly income. "Before, it was music for money's sake," he says...