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...June 29, 1885. a London art dealer named Parsons sold to the Victoria and Albert Museum a couple of albums he obviously was delighted to get rid of. The volumes contained 326 original drawings and sketches by an 18th century Venetian painter whose work had fallen out of favor. Parsons disposed of the lot for ?11, about 10? a drawing...
...Freeman maintains in a recent New York Times Magazine article that "the Kennedy Administration is already beginning to show concrete results in its effort to rid the country of the hobgoblin of farm surplus that has plagued the taxpayer and haunted the farmer, off and on, for thirty years." In short, he claims that the basic problem is the crop surplus. This view, despite its widespread acceptance, is demonstrably wrong...
...meaningless, like the drippings and droppings of the abstract expressionist and action painters, like the words and images that the beat poets seek to capture with a tape recorder during their mindless monologues or in the trances of drug-taking...They want to carry nothing forward, but to get rid of all their inherited aesthetic and intellectual lumber; they have no public hope, for they feel soiled and guilty from contact with any part of existing society. They want to strip bare and dig down to a hoped-for bedrock showing no trace of an earlier passage of man. This...
...army-and actively working toward maintaining Katanga's secession from the central Congo government, even at the cost of civil war. Last month, the Congo's moderate Premier Cyrille Adoula asked the U.N. to enforce the resolution. O'Brien gave Tshombe until Sept. 9 to get rid of the Europeans...
Salinger in 1946 was back in New York, rid not only of soldiering but of a brief, unsuccessful marriage to a European woman physician. Though the two were obviously incompatible, he later insisted that they had a telepathic link, were aware of the same events happening at the same time. He lived with his parents on Park Avenue and spent his nights in Greenwich Village. Gentle and humorous, he loved arguing about grammar and augmented his skinny frame with bar bells. Although this was years before Buddhism was peddled in supermarkets, he eagerly studied Zen, gave reading lists...