Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kennedy's camp was plunged in gloom: all the portents indicated a Humphrey victory next week. "Things aren't as bad as we say they are," said a weary Kennedy aide. "They're worse." Humphrey fluctuated between doubt and exultation. "You know what?" he told a reporter, only half in jest, "I may win this primary. It scares me to death. Then what will I do? Every favorite son in the country will begin to quiver again. They'll get as tough as boiled owls...
...that he, too, had been a poor boy. "American politics are far too important to belong to the moneyman." he said on Milton's Main Street. "I want to bring back politics to the people, to Main Street." In Hamlin he rose to a high for hokum: "They say, 'Don't cut foreign aid to Formosa, but don't give one dime to West Virginia.' This is a one-eyed Government: one eye looking overseas and the other eye closed...
...thing to do when in public, today's painters like to say, is keep mum and let one's canvases speak for themselves. But unhappily, not all modern canvases are exactly self-explanatory, and when the painters do open up, the listener can be in for a dizzy experience. Among the most successful of the second generation of the so-called School of New York are the three women whose works are shown in color (right). When they choose, they have a kind of eloquence...
...some ways the most daring in her work. "I often start with a canvas on the floor," she once said, "then work on it on the wall, changing back and forth, working at it from different sides." She usually begins with no particular idea in mind: "Let's say I start with some arbitrary color, or I simply start." Gradually, the picture builds-"an amorphous inner-world perspective that lies flat on canvas and yet flies out"-and when it is done, it is given a name...
Dowling refused to go into his father's firm ("If you do anything good, people say, 'No wonder; his old man's head of the office' "), instead, worked in a handful of real-estate companies, specialized in redeveloping slum areas, became a self-taught expert. By 1943, when his father died, leaving him stock control (now 25%) of City Investing. Dowling had by then already made a name for himself...