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Stone's version of that liberal vision is woven of three ideals: justice, libertarianism, and pacifism. He values social order as a guarantee against violence and deplores the "urge to reach for the dagger" on both the right and left. In his essay on Kennedy's death "We All Had a Finger on That Trigger," Stone writes: "It is not just the ease in obtaining guns, it is the ease in obtaining excuses, that fosters assassination...
...palaces, as durable as moths will allow. But the collaboration of a young crafts man and a modern-day old master have transformed it into something bold and new. Bright color plays against the hemp's rich browns, big shapes against the intricacy of woven texture, gay in genuity against humble utilitarian bur lap. Formidable...
Among Miró's current projects are two new Sobreteixims - one hung with umbrellas, another so big (20 ft. by 36 ft.) that Royo has had to construct a special loom to make it. "It will be the largest tapestry ever woven," says Miró proudly. "It is une folie. But then you have to be crazy...
...President be attached to the court record and thus made public. Agnew reluctantly agreed, later pointing out that he did not admit to any of the allegations contained in the document. Nevertheless, the extraordinary, 40-page "exposition" prepared by U.S. Attorney George Beall and his staff constitutes a tightly woven, damning case against Agnew. Its high points...
Pritchett's knowledge of Balzac's body of writing is so well assimilated that he can call on it at will. There are no noisome transitions between "life" and "work." Fictional characters and stories are woven into the book as they reflect on Balzac's life or illustrate the boiling contradictions of his nature...