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...White House, Ike wondered aloud: "What has happened to our concept of beauty and decency and morality?" Books and movies are laced with "vulgarity, sensuality, indeed downright filth." People dance "the twist instead of the minuet." Modern paintings look as if they have been "run over by a broken-down tin lizzie loaded with paint.'' He did not think the U.S. would go for it for long. "I per sonally believe," said Ike, "that we are about to see, and are seeing, a renaissance in American pride in America, an American pride in the characteristics that have made...
...also were three Maltese crosses on his banner-in the burnished red-brown of copper. The man was as vivid as the flag. He dressed his mounted honor guard in plumed helmets and blazing tunics bought secondhand from the Garde Républicaine in France, and seated them on broken-down nags sent up from Rhodesia. He was the solemn black defender of white capitalism in middle Africa, a rarity; yet he sneered at his Belgian sponsors as deceitful, and at the U.S. as "cowardly and decadent." He was urbane and charming, with a clever turn of phrase couched invariably...
...country where the average weekly wage is $42. For a London scrap-metal dealer and his pregnant wife, "home" after working hours is a three-ton truck. A common racket for landlords is to charge $200 or $300 key money for "fixtures" that seldom amount to more than a broken-down chair. Worst results of the housing shortage: thousands of split families, and the reappearance of something close to the Dickensian workhouse...
...Wild Beasts) and the cubists. He placed a painting in New York's history-making 1913 Armory Show ("We were modern, wildly modern"), but he quickly came to realize that his brand of cubism was derivative. One day he picked up a panel of butternut wood from a broken-down bureau, used it to carve a block for a print, thus learned the fascination of sculpture...
...summer's eve celebration. A fat, dissolute, and probably capitalistic robber baron starts the plot rolling by breaking up the festivities, and then deciding that he wants young Lileya as his scullery maid. Serf Stephen runs away to join the "free" (naturally) Cossacks, and Lileya hides in a broken-down water mill...