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Smith: True. And the depression-or recession-is a good excuse for a lot of political-economic folly-farm subsidies, xenophobic trade measures and things like that. What we really need, to use a businessman's trite expression, is a truly sound economy-growth and expansion, yes, but tempered with soundness. And we need to have it sound at every level-at the level of Government, at the level of the corporation, and at the level of the individual family budget...
...order to buy from the U.S., it follows, said Ike, that "the defeat of the trade agreements program would destroy far more jobs . . . than it could possibly ever preserve." But the President was not willing to rest his argument on self-interest. "It may be trite to say that trade is a two-way street, but is it trite to say that cooperative security is a two-way street? By no means. Allies are needed, [and] sturdy allies need progressive economies, not merely to bear the burden of defensive armament but also to satisfy the needs and aspirations of their...
Instead of the trite sobriquet Explorer, the U.S. moon should have been dubbed Minerva ; for, like the goddess of old, it too sprang from Jupiter's head...
...says, "I just let it happen. When I let my inner vision guide my hands, there are no errors." Said Paris Abstractionist Pierre Soulages of her current show: "It is not only sculpture, it is a whole world." And certainly Louise Nevelson's world is in no way trite or ordinary...
...morning doldrums. The show is thoroughly professional in the sense that it is thoroughly routine. The tunes seem sold by the dozen, the gags come packaged and ready to serve. There is not much of Ziegfeld's idea of the body beautiful, and there must be too much trite and tired business for even the tired businessman...