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...that Roosevelt was the savior of both capitalism and democracy. The American system had totally broken down, Schlesinger argued, and both conservatives and radicals were well on the way to convincing the world that there was no middle way between ideological extremes. Roosevelt proved otherwise. Said Schlesinger: "In the welter of confusion and ignorance, experiment corrected by compassion was the best answer...
...demonstrate Solidarity's good faith, Walesa repeated his call for an end to Poland's current welter of strikes. Earlier in the week, he had persuaded the 120,000-member chapter in Tarnobrzeg Province to end a ten-day walkout, but approximately 160,000 workers remained idle throughout the country...
...Though Banisadr was elected President with 75% of the vote in 1980, and soon earned the support of the army as its commander in chief, he was ultimately unable to withstand the fundamentalists' hostility and Khomeini's divide-and-rule tactics, which turned Iranian politics into a welter of warring factions. Banisadr lost more favor when he seemed too eager to work out a deal with the U.S. for the release of the embassy hostages. Late last week, from hiding, Banisadr issued a call to Iranians to "unite against fundamentalists and the unprecedented dictatorship they are imposing...
Nonetheless, he can still inspirit his city. He wavered on school busing but stood fast on racial harmony; after a welter of racially motivated assaults in 1976, he led a march of 30,000 people to protest violence. During his tenure, Boston has rebuilt its downtown and waterfront, added thousands of hotel rooms and sold itself, accurately, as "the livable city." Faneuil Hall Marketplace is the ultimate urban mall...
...face tonally, without giving much information about it at all. "On that scale," Close points out, "a dot just can't be specific, it can't stand for individual hairs, it has to be very general." In the largest studies, the face may almost vanish in the welter of information, becoming ungraspable, as the original photograph never was. In between there are many thresholds of transition, where the changes of size alter the whole relationship, within the image, of photography (the source) to painting (the product). Sometimes, more recently, Close seems to abandon the grid altogether, transforming...