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...quiet slowness. In 1924, when Hopper was 42, they married. From then on, she did nearly all the modeling for his nudes and other feminine figures. Perhaps it says something about their curious yet enduring relationship that his nudes-and indeed all his figures-thereafter became increasingly stiff and generalized...
...until the '50's, the competition to make a club was extremely stiff, and unlike Yale's secret societies, acceptance was not based largely on leadership or merit, but on your last name, your prep school, and your sense of social grace. Only 150 members of every class survived the selection process, and the clubs were so exclusive that graduates of old and rich but "democratic" Andover and Exeter more often than not failed to make any club. Even one third of the alumni of the socially elite "St. Grottlesex" schools found themselves clubless at the end of sophomore year...
...scared stiff to hear that the youngsters are going to vote in the U.S. next time [Aug. 23]. What the hell do these kids know about life...
Such rhetoric, with its unsettling overtones of economic nationalism, reflects the stiff new American attitude toward world trade. Part of the rationale is the feeling in the Administration among many businessmen that postwar American aid gives the U.S. a claim to special treatment in global competition. But gratitude, especially for those services rendered more than two decades ago, is the slenderest of reeds on which to build a foreign policy, particularly in the pragmatic realm of economics. An even more pervasive notion behind the increasingly tough U.S. trading stance is that American spending abroad has been largely an altruistic gesture...
...steel to the U.S., provided that they dismantle many of their trade barriers and permit American manufacturers to build plants and sell products in Japan. In the tough bargaining that lies ahead, there is equal opportunity for the U.S. to persuade the Europeans to eliminate some of their stiff trade restrictions by offering in return to remove some of its own. Among the candidates for repeal that are most unpopular with trading partners of the U.S. are the so-called "Ship America" act and the many similar expressions of the "Buy American" mentality...