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...architect's scale model. The low-rise section has the sinuousness and personality of a granite python, and the tower rises mute like an Aztec altar. Some people claim that architecture like this requires a new grammar of response; I think instead that Mather House almost demands that we abandon our way of seeing...

Author: By Martin H. Kaplan, | Title: Mather Slouching Toward Alphaville | 10/23/1970 | See Source »

...Cold War ideology declared a state of permanent emergency in the federal government after World War II. It justified extraordinary expenditures of economic and military aid, united the Congress and the Executive behind a bipartisan foreign policy, and justified an activist posture abroad. To abandon that anti-Communist internationalism now would severely impede the President's freedom of movement in foreign affairs-an obsessive fear with Nixon during debates over the Hatfield-McGovern amendment, for he is a determined activist. Foreign policy, he has said, is almost the sole business of the President. The running of the "free world...

Author: By Thomas Geoghegan, | Title: Foreign Policy The Vatican Vision | 10/21/1970 | See Source »

Menzel last night praised the 1969 report on UFO's by a University ofColorado research team headed by Edward U. Condon. The report suggested that the Air Rorce abandon its 20-year role as arbiter and compiler of UFO reports...

Author: By Garrett Epps, | Title: UFO Specialist Calls Saucer 'Racket' Dead | 10/20/1970 | See Source »

Knott and Tate are not afraid to become engaged, or to withdraw, depending on how they feel. Tate's poems vary from the short, sly lyrics of The Lost Pilot to a newly wild and surrealist abandon in The Oblivion Ha-Ha, a book inhabited by immense animals and dreams within dreams. His terse, sensual allegories make deadly insinuations about our habits and fears...

Author: By Jonathan Galassi, | Title: Lyrics Bill Knott and James Tate | 10/16/1970 | See Source »

Playing with the type of reckless abandon generally associated with desperate seniors attempting to earn a 4-F deferment, the Lowell line effectively shut out the Adams rushing game and then pinched off the aerial attack...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell Downs Adams, 20-6 | 10/15/1970 | See Source »

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