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Hopper paintings are not to be taken as quaint studies of Cape Cod dunes or static scenes of raucous city life. No drinkers carouse at Hopper's bars, no oil-skinned fishermen haul Hopper's nets. He is an intense artist of the arrested moment, of the intermission between Act I and Act II of a play still being written. In general, there is no joy in the contemplation; the past seems full but futile, the future bleak but bearable. In the meantime, Hopper proposes the lean, almost unnoticed consolation of street lamplight on brownstone, of sunlight...
Road maps say that the border of Georgia, Tennessee and North Carolina is a crow-flies straight line along the 35th parallel from Scaly Mountain, N.C., to Guild, Tenn. But for more than a century a rather quaint controversy has cooked over whether an 1811 surveyor made a southward error -thrown off by a forest fire and Indian harassment-and gave Tennessee and North Carolina some 300 sq. mi. of mountainous woods that actually belong to Georgia...
...churchly calendar of saints' days may have become obscure to many; yet Americans have cloaked nearly every day, week and month of the year with a quaint secular significance. All of Illinois, for example, can look forward to June as Fight the Filthy Fly Month; Georgia observes Barbershop Harmony Week, Conway Twitty Day, and Georgia Hat Week...
...both worker and executive, the company is the center of life. Workers often display a quaint family spirit, referring to "my" company, and my is written with the same Japanese character that represents family. They often cheer each other when changing shifts, like baseball players applauding a teammate who has just hit a home run. It is rare for a major executive to leave on a business trip without getting a rousing send-off from the entire office staff at the airport. At Matsushita Electric, Nissan Motors and other firms, the day begins with everybody assembling to sing the company...
...refusing trips that took them even a block out of their way, and spitting at quarter tips. Now, eager to nurture their trade, they are reportedly all sunshine and gallantry, sprinting around their cabs to open doors. Shrugs Jacob Lativitsky: "I even go to The Bronx with pleasure." A quaint old expression is coming back into use in discourse between drivers and their customers. It goes: "Thank...