I will be proposing an increase in funding this year sufficient to enable the Endowment to maintain the same level of support offered our citizens in Fiscal Year 1981. In the allocation of this funding, special emphasis will be given to: -Humanities education in the nation's schools, in response to the great needs that have arisen in this area; -Scholarly research designed to increase our understanding of the cultures, traditions, and historical forces at work in other nations and in our own; -Drawing attention to the physical disintegration of the raw material of our cultural heritage-books, manuscripts, periodicals, and other documents-and to the development of techniques to prevent the destruction and to preserve those materials; and -The dissemination of quality programming in the humanities to increasingly large American audiences through the use of radio and television.
"State of the Union Addresses of Jimmy Carter"
Jimmy Carter
It was distributed according to the judgment of the merchant and of the clergyman, but the clergyman was never consulted about the distribution or allocation of a single penny, and, so far as he was ever able to find out.
"Second Shetland Truck System Report"
William Guthrie
The laughter over, I was assisted to rise, and having drank about a pint of vinegar, and had my face and temples washed in strong whiskey punch-the allocation of the fluids being mistaken, I learned that our host, the high sheriff, was a celebrated tin and iron man, and that his salles de reception were no other than his magazine of metals, and that to conceal the well filled shelves from the gaze of his aristocratic guests, they were clothed in the manner related; which my unhappy head, by some misfortune, displaced, and thus brought on a calamity scarcely less afflicting to him than to myself.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
