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...urban Catholics, whether Irish, Italian, Polish, Hungarian, or Czech. In his latest book, The Mediacracy, Phillips writes that traditional Republicans and ethnics have a common enemy in the new "knowledge-sector elite"?liberals and Big Government, education, foundations and the press, who tend to belittle the industrious, upward-striving lower middle classes. But once again, Republicans have...
...Tower is my fruit-dish," Delaunay liked to say, in a dig at cubist still life. From 1909 onward, he painted it at least 30 times: close up or on the skyline, seen from above or below, aggressively sharp or half-dissolved in mists of color, broken, dislocated, twisting upward, a veritable Tower of Babel. No painter had dealt with this emblem of Promethean man before, and it is not surprising that some of Delaunay's images of it-especially the Red Eiffel Tower, 1911-12 (see color)-were tinged with anthropomorphism: a red, two-legged form, trusses...
...upward of 50 reporters, photographers, network-TV cameramen and technicians who accompanied Carter to Plains were at first pleased with the change of pace from Manhattan and the long primary trail. Now, however, they are suffering from advanced ennui and frustration-enhanced by South Georgia's sauna-like summer climate and the bountiful swarms of gnats, chiggers and fire ants. Exulted the Boston Globe's Curtis Wilkie, himself a native of the Deep South, as he prepared to escape from Plains on a vacation: "Free at last, free at last, great God a-mighty, ah'm free...
...such a show?" The school's first teacher, Ray Fisher, who quit because Gauld permitted no disagreement with his own hawkish views on Viet Nam, charges that Gauld "is completely obsessed. You find that the kids are in effect brainwashed." Doris Vladimiroff, director of HEW'S Upward Bound program in Maine, whose son went to a Hyde summer session, complains: "Gauld's techniques are nothing less than demoniacal...
Fury mounting above his terror, Leach...stretched himself in a lunge in the Italian manner, the whole body parallel with the ground and supported...upon his left hand. He sent his point ripping upward under de Bernis'guard. But de Bernis...passed his sword from side to side through the captain's extended body. Standing over Tom Leach as he lay coughing out his evil life upon the sands, Monsieur de Bernis ruefully shook his head...