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...rode noisily into the third biggest political job in the land. On election night, although he had not yet taken office and had no real authority, he ordered police to send 400 patrol wagons out to bring voting machines to police headquarters-he suspected Tammany henchmen of trying to alter the vote for comptroller. The police obeyed, and the Fusion candidate won. In the next twelve years, the longest period any mayor of New York ever spent in office, life in the great city was seldom dull...
...hierarchy of the great masters, the greatest have a quality beyond the temporal, which Picasso lacks, and shock tactics are not a final way to alter human vision. The crux and center of Picasso's art is, in my view, hysteria, and in this he so echoes the prevailing evil of his age that he seems to be its prophet...
Under these conditions, Russia was unlikely to accept. Nor was the gesture counted on to alter Russia's truculent hostility toward any and all U.S. atomic proposals. But to the world, the offer was a small, unmistakable earnest of U.S. willingness to share the atom's benefits...
...closed-shop agreements that were the bone & sinew of the I.T.U. So the 95-year-old labor union would simply sign no more contracts. Its 1,001 locals would post unsigned "conditions of employment," and would work as long as the conditions prevailed. Any publisher who rashly tried to alter the conditions-or to hire non-union printers-would have a strike on his hands...
...Farrar says that since "the majority opinion of the IUS is far to the left of the usual American student" and "the European student is a much more active citizen and a more violent political figure" than his American counterpart, "it may seem advisable to ask the IUS to alter the clauses of its constitution covering withdrawal, which are now quite cumbersome, in case NSO found itself obliged to withdraw...