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...evidence of a highly individualistic approach to life. He daubed the noses of classical casts with red paint, took to washing his face in film developer. He also made himself a first-rate draftsman and a master of watercolor. Thus equipped, he took to wandering like a self-propelled vacuum cleaner into ugly corners of the everyday world, sucking up sordid impressions to belch out as nightmare pictures. Burra's brush can turn a gin mill into an outpost of hell, a whore into a rapacious owl, a bottle into an imp with one malignant eye peering from...
...technicalities stood between Austria's 7,000,000 and their freedom: when foreign troops should withdraw, what was to be the nature of the four-power Austrian neutrality guarantee demanded by Russia, and most embarrassing of all, what should be done about foreign oil rights in Austria. Socony-Vacuum, Royal Dutch Shell and a few other Western companies whose oil lands were confiscated by the Nazis, want them back...
What, asks Priestley, is the reason for Billy's success? It is not Britons' hunger for religion, but their hunger for a show. "There is a vacuum that must be filled. Politics, to exist for them at all, must be a show. Patriotism is a show with an expensive regal cast . . . And now, with the arrival of the streamlined Billy Graham organization . . . religion is a show...
...legislative program. Too often his proposals have been endangered by his failure to exercise proper leadership. His willingness to make unnecessary concessions to protectionist minority groups like the watch industry weakened his position on his foreign trade bill. By his eagerness to delegate authority, Eisenhower has created a vacuum of leadership in which major decisions like issuance of the Yalta papers have been made evidently without his knowledge. His toleration of censorship in the selection of books for the U. S. overseas libraries has belied the idealistic stand of his Dartmouth "book-burning" speech. This hesitancy to make...
...arrive. Presumably concerned by what happened to a plane carrying an advance delegation from Peking (see below), Chou kept his schedule secret. At its stops his plane was surrounded by troops; it carried ten 45-gallon drums of fuel from home. When required to take on more gas (Standard-Vacuum) at Rangoon, the Communists gave the fuel a litmus-paper test. Although forced down by weather at Singapore, Chou got to Indonesia safely. At the airport, the Indonesians even went so far as to bar some of their own officials. Less melodramatically, Bandung's other featured performers streamed...