Today it is a commonplace that the automobile represents freedom. But to many Americans in the 1920s, the car and its driver were tyrants that deprived others of their freedom.
It is difficult not to marvel at the imagination which was implicit in this gargantuan insanity. If there must be madness something may be said for having it on a heroic scale.
To enter out into that silence that was the city at eight o'clock of a misty evening in November, to put your feet upon that buckling concrete walk, to step over grassy seams and make your way, hands in pockets, through the silences, that was what Mr. Leonard Mead most dearly loved to do.
Her work on covers for art, history and fiction titles for the great publisher Il Saggiatore di Alberto Mondadori Editore was beyond the American sense of mid-modern. Damn! Those done in the late 1950s through the 1960s were, I have to say, beyond contemporary too. They were not period or trendy, they were just perfect. I assume that Klinz’s work had long ago influenced many of the wonderful current covers sold in Feltrinelli.
in 1971, we found that 80 per cent of 7 and 8 year old children were allowed to go to school on their own. By 1990, this figure had dropped to 9 percent.
THE DUNGANNON AFFAIR: If on the morning ofTuesday 28 August 1963 the citizens of Dungannon had known the implication and the upshot of what had happened the night before in their town
Chichester noted, 'The traitors in many places receive blows, though we kill them not in multitudes…It is famine, not the sword, that must reduce this country to what is expected'.
T HERE IS NOTHING that man fears more than the touch of the un-known. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it.