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...Wyeth's peeling walls, the desolate farms, the long passageways of decaying houses, the interiors seen in unusual perspective, could have become merely stagy. But in Wyeth the drama does not get out of hand, for even objects take on human emotion. He can paint a frozen drinking trough and make it seem as forlorn as an orphaned child. His battered barns brood about better days; a darkened window can show the same pain as the eyes of one of Wyeth's Negroes. The world that Wyeth paints is old, weary, sad and scarred. It is not nostalgia...
Winches rattled, halyards sang, and pelting rain beat a steady tattoo against the sails. For more than six miles, the two boats matched swell for swell, trough for trough, until it seemed that they were bound together by an invisible chain...
...upturn. In the first twelve months of recovery from the 1958 recession, more than 1,800,000 new non-farm jobs opened up. Last month, at the same stage of the current recovery, there were only 1,260,000 more non-farm jobs than at the recession's trough...
...advice about a railroad station site, was told: "You ken set it hyar or you ken set it thar." Mills's Second Arkansas District abounds in picturesque place names: Morning Sun is 75 miles from Evening Shade, and other places are named Joy. Romance, Rose Bud and Oil Trough. The son of a prosperous Kensett merchant and banker, Mills was sent to Harvard Law School, returned home to a job in his father's Kensett State Bank. In 1938, Mills ran for the House of Representatives. He learned to hunker on the court house steps, to roll...
...Tito have in common with Hungary's boss, Janos Kadar, and Czechoslovakia's Antonin Novotny (all were once locksmiths). His sidelights often illuminate the mood of a country more effectively than pages of analysis. Discussing West Germany's affluence, Gunther reports slyly that an elaborate marble trough in a restaurant washroom was for "gentlemen who had dined too well to vomit into...