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...Button for Perfection. The current Tate retrospective shows why. While earning a living by turning out popular landscapes and portraits, Spencer has devoted the past 22 years to decorating a "chapel in the air" whose dimensions are nothing less than Cookham itself, with the main street for the nave, the River Thames as "a side aisle." Into it, Spencer fits his Pentecost, Cana and "couples" cycles, filling them out with Bruegelesque pictures of everyday life. Nothing is too mundane to leave out. Says Spencer: "All ordinary acts such as the sewing on of a button are religious things...
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...partridge. Attendants brought his lunch to Mamie's room one day, his breakfast the next. He was allowed to roam about whenever he wanted to on the hospital's eighth floor, permitted out of bed any time except during his two-hour afternoon rest. Pushing its control button i, he received some visitors in "my electric chair," a fancy convalescent device that raised and lowered his back and legs or gently oscillated. After 15-minute morning huddles with Sherman Adams, he received official callers, among them Postmaster General Summerfield and Labor Secretary Mitchell. Summerfield later told reporters that...
...effectively. Beset by the feeling that they are wasting precious minutes, some of them affect a "crispness of action" that verges on rudeness. Others go in for an "almost adolescent experimenting with time-saving devices," set up a "Rube Goldberg assortment of mechanical memory joggers, electronic communication systems, push-button desks." They are deeply concerned with self-improvement, e.g., 66% want to better themselves in public speaking, 57% want to improve their memories and 46% want to do more reading...
...Wellesley girls may like to escape their campus, however, they have to return promptly on time. Normally their dorms are locked up tight at 10 p.m. Any girl wanting to get in after that hour, unlike the Radcliffe girl, who has her own front door key, must push a button which turns on a light to attract the night watchman...