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...continuities between 19th and 20th century art and correcting the myth that the modern art that mattered represented a wrenching break with the past. Without the culture of the salon and the Academy, no Matisse; you cannot imagine a work like Constantin Brancusi's Caryatid, 1940, without its triple root in the peasant woodcarvings of the artist's native Rumania, his study of African sculpture and his passion for the archaic Mediterranean...
...word comfortable did not acquire its modern meaning until the 18th century; its original Latin root, confortare, means to console, as in Jesus comforting the afflicted. The medieval citizen who used the word in that sense could scarcely use it about his house, which generally consisted of one large room, little heat or light, a minimum of furniture and no running water. "In the Middle Ages," observes Rybczynski, "people didn't so much live in their houses as camp in them...
...most Latin American countries are worse off today than when the debt crisis arose in 1982. Musich acknowledged Treasury Secretary Baker's October initiative to use increased international aid to spur additional growth in debtor countries. But the Argentine economist warned that the debt burden is not the root cause of the region's economic problems of endemic poverty, inflation and slow growth. Many of those ills are self-inflicted by what Musich called "rigid inward policies," meaning excessive bureaucratization, protectionism and state domination of local economies. Said he: "With or without the debt, Latin American economies would face...
...company. Even organized labor went along with the idea. Since the planned products had never been made before by Allen-Bradley, workers would not be displaced by the new operation. Mindful of past job cuts, the union's leaders were at least happy to see the operation take root in Milwaukee. Says Ted Krukowski, president of Local 1111 of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers: "There's concern, but there's also a feeling of accomplishment that our folks played a role...
...wounded by four men in another vehicle. Police, who later arrested four Canadian Sikhs, were treating the case as an international incident. The reason: Sidhu, 56, is the planning minister of the Indian state of Punjab and a party member of the moderate Akali Dal, which is trying to root out Sikh terrorism...