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...FORMAL interests of the Expressionists have often been obscured by their subject matter. This is especially true of artists such as Meidner, whose violently agitated scenes of streets, explosions and factories, executed between 1910 and 1915, earned him a reputation as a prophet of the Apocalypse. The drawings show, rather, a draftsman concerned with the language of marks on paper. The series of Street Scenes have an abstract life created by their patterns of broken lines and jagged chips of ink. Meidner seems to have translated the textures of wood block into pen-and-ink. The result is powerful...
...inside interpretation is quite different. Although it is true that Pope John XXIII himself made it clear that he favored Paul as his successor, papal attempts to influence future elections have usually been ignored by the cardinals. Aside from that, Benelli's style in taking the heavy administrative burden from Paul's shoulders has made him probably the most unpopular man inside the Vatican. He dislikes delegating authority, busies himself even with such trivia as the allocation of Vatican apartments, and has trampled on a good many official sensibilities. And he is too new a cardinal...
...novel, The Crash of '79, is in its 25th week on the bestseller lists, has been bought by Paramount for a movie, and is diverting not only ordinary readers but also corporate executives and government officials, who assure each other that its forecast of doom will not come true. Certainly not. Of course...
Nonetheless, this remains the Age of the Possible. The wealthy are not an endangered species. It is hard to believe, but true, that more Americans today are making fortunes than ever before. Sharing the riches, 1,149 taxpayers had annual incomes of $1 million or more in 1975-nearly twice as many as in 1970. The number of individuals in the U.S. with a net worth of $ 1 million or more has soared almost fourfold in the past 15 years: from 54,000 in 1962 to nearly 200,000 today-although these figures are somewhat deceptive, since anyone...
Kipling, Samuel Smiles, Horatio Alger, Dr. Pangloss, J. Paul Getty, John D. Rockefeller, the Carnegies (Andrew and Dale) and countless other evangelists of true grit have all in their time promoted the same if-at-first-you-don't-succeed philosophy for nearly a century. From the evidence, there was probably never a time or place in which their lessons were more applicable or more richly rewarded than they are in the U.S. today. Heigh...