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...Deflation may not have had a bad name until it hit the Japanese economy in the early 1990s. The financial activity in the Asian nation went into a long hibernation. The pace of commerce slowed to a point which had not been seen in the modern history of the country...
...Nathan Pusey, chatting with Painter Andrew Wyeth at dinner the night before giving him an honorary doctor of fine arts degree in 1955, inquired: "And where did you go to college?" Wyeth knew that his answer might well be dumfounding to a professional protagonist of formal learning, but he went ahead and said it: "I didn't go to college. I never even went to school." Recalling Pusey's expression now, Wyeth says: "He almost fainted...
...course, Wyeth did get an education: in academic matters from tutors, in art from his late renowned father N. C. Wyeth. But if in the scholarly sense he never went to school, in the artistic sense he is his own school...
...temperas are in major American museums, from Manhattan's Met and Modern to Houston's Museum of Fine Arts.* His shows are thronged: 247,800 people went to a month-long Wyeth show in Buffalo last year. Last summer, when President Kennedy picked a painter to be among the first winners of the Medal of Freedom-the U.S.'s highest civilian honor-it was quite inevitable that the choice would be Wyeth. A fortnight ago, President Johnson presented it to him with a citation declaring that "he has in the great humanist tradition illuminated and clarified...
...Wyeth went back to his painting. He had run out of an important color; so he took two tubes, squeezed some paint from each of them and then he poured some yellow liquid into the whole mess. Wondering, I asked him what the yellow stuff was. 'That's egg yolk,' he replied. 'Have you ever noticed that if you drop an egg and don't clean it up immediately it sticks and you can't get it off? It does the same thing in pictures. Also if you use yolk the picture will...