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For Corporations To Be Bedfellows With The Arts Is Good Business For Both. The Architecture That Houses A Company Is A More Visible Statement Than The President's In The Annual Report. Ditto Interiors, Particularly Of Offices And Sometimes, Dramatically, In Plants. For Solvent Businesses, Support Of Community Cultural Undertakings In Music, Drama, Dance Creates Great Goodwill. Also, The Existence Of Such Activities Is Often Important To The Executives And Their Families That Companies Want To Keep Or Attract To Keep.

More Often Than Not, Things And People Are As They Appear.

One Often Reads About The Art Of Conversation-how It's Dying Or What's Needed To Make It Flourish, Or How Rare Good Ones Are. But Wouldn't You Agree That The Infinitely More Valuable Rara Avis [rare Bird] Is A Good Listener.

Let Your Children Go If You Want To Keep Them.

It Doesn't Take Much Of A Rule To Measure A Mean Man.