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FORD BEGAN HIS SPEECH firmly in the city-as-ideal framework--he called New York the place "through whose Golden Door untold millions have entered this land of liberty"--but was quick and sure about miring the real city in incomprehensible bigness. He spoke of the difficulty of sorting out the truth in "this terribly complex situation," a task that would be made possible only by unadorned "straight talk." His New York is in a "quagmire," with a "stream" of budgets, "massive growth" and "extraordinary increases." Things have gotten out of hand; they have risen out of proportion with...
...Henry Quinn Jr. goes about his business, leaving untold the story his father might have told if he too had not been too busy. It would have been a business and finance story, like the stories of most buildings. In 1927, when the first J. Henry Quinn moved into the second-floor office, the building was owned by Mary E. McDonough and valued, along with its land, at $236,000, its worth having recently jumped with the addition of the brick part...
From wooden forks, his business metastasizes wildly through the acquisition of bankrupt companies. By making salvaged assets jump through tax loopholes, the juvenile tycoon gains control of a brewery, a film studio, an untold quantity of frozen pork bellies, an entire New England mill town, a factory that manufactures player-piano rolls and condoms, and much more...
...ultimately puzzling problem is that there are perhaps untold numbers of alienated Americans who have lost the race for prestige and success, who have had unhappy childhoods, who are uprooted geographically and morally?and who would not think of shooting the President or anyone else. When does the malcontent turn dangerous? When does the harmless kook become harmful? No one can know for sure. One of the costs of democracy is the fact that the dangerous social oddball can lurk anywhere at any time, waiting to act out his or her delusions...
...support of the Bauhaus ideal of integrating the artist into society, and something about the early, catalytic years of the Bauhaus which inspired this support. Unfortunately the Busch-Reisinger does not elaborate either visually or with text to explain what that something is. The anecdotes remain hinted at, but untold, visually powerful, diverse, intriguing, and in puzzling...