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Though no Court bloc has ever been solid on every issue, today's 5-4 majority has produced a Court with an unprecedented solicitude for individuals, the unsavory as well as the savory. The Court's hallmark is a greater-than-ever willingness to act in the face of a commonly overlooked fact: the failure of Congress for generations to pass laws enforcing the 14th Amendment, which was ratified...
...maiden public flight the A11 clearly demonstrated the agility and speed that will be the hallmark of to morrow's interceptor. But even more to the point, the A-11's role as a fighter plane was obvious to those who inspected it on the ground. There were bomb-bay doors in the craft's belly that hid a covey of four-vaned air-to-air AIM (Air Intercept Missile) missiles...
...lead to war. This is the supreme political lie, and we've got to label it for what it is. Let me assure you here and now that a Goldwater-Miller Administration will mean an immediate return to the proven policy of peace through strength, which was the hallmark of the Eisenhower years. The Eisenhower-Dulles approach to foreign affairs is our approach...
Agony in a Yawn. A hallmark of the collection is its focus on the well-painted picture with perfect brushwork. Nothing among Simon's pictures looks unfinished or sloppy. "Simon's primary consideration is esthetic quality without regard for periods," says Richard Brown, director of the Los Angeles County Museum. "And he lives with it just that way, hanging a Van Dyck alongside a Gorky in his office, a Memling alongside a Degas at home. This takes courage and taste, because it means holding the bat full length, not shortening...
...Another hallmark is Simon's eye for restrained treatment. His Gorkys are unflamboyant, his late Van Goghs un-despairing. But the peaceable appearance of Simon's art masks the tough reality within. As Brown explains it, Simon has "a sympathy, an understanding, a desire to recognize agony in life," and Simon himself, a self-made intellectual who quit college after six weeks, considers "the facts of life and cold reality as bona fide subjects of art." The yawn of Degas' laundress conceals the agony of poverty and weary boredom...