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...Light Hand. Like many a success ful publisher, gangling, Dakota-born Phil Graham never covered a news sto ry. A lawyer by training and a wheeler-dealer by instinct, he started at the top of his adopted profession. In 1940 he married Katharine Meyer, 22, news-minded daughter of the liberal Post's multimillionaire publisher. At war's end he joined the paper as associate pub lisher; within six months he took over from Father-in-Law Eugene Meyer...
...Bronwyn FitzSimons, 19, looks markedly the way her mother, Maureen O'Hara, did 20 years ago. Bronwyn has five television credits and one film (Spencer's Mountain) behind her, is currently interested in a singing career. She has the sure instinct of the Hollywood child for PR-Man's English: "I sing, I dance, I'm starting a record company. I act, I work in an office, I golf. I'm a refined...
Vicious Creeds. James does not bother to choose among the various creeds he catalogues because he considers them all unprovable. "Instinct leads," he writes. "Intelligence does but follow." The act of conversion is, in fact, a complete surrender of human reason: "The will to assert ourselves and hold our own has been displaced by a willingness to close our mouths and be as nothing in the floods and waterspouts of God. The time for tension in the soul is over, and that of happy relaxation, of calm deep breathing, of an eternal present with no discordant future to be anxious...
Accent on Optimism. That depends, to a considerable extent, on the prime movers of private business, whose massive corporations have been called "the dominant nongovernmental institutions of American life." The men at the top judge the state of the economy with a mixture of facts and instinct. Whenever they meet -whether over candlelit dining tables in the White House or in clubs from San Francisco's Pacific Union to Manhattan's Links-they are constantly poking and prodding the U.S. body economic and creating the delicate consensus known as business mood. What is their mood...
From this first experience Le Corbusier has kept the instinct of the fatidical, indispensible, practical, and beneficient relations between the hand and the head. The rupture of this collaboration of the hand and the head brought by the mechanism and the bureacracy has fomented little by little the monstrous society which would be on the decline if no reaction interfered...