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...almost visceral comfort from his new habitat. Far from feeling claustrophobically fenced in, as his immediate predecessors often did, Nixon luxuriates in the ambience of privacy and power. For Kennedy and Johnson, "home" always seemed somewhere else. For Nixon, a man without deep geographic roots, home is now the apex to which he aspired for so long...
...Masterpieces often remain hidden in plain sight," Eliot said last week, "but none more so than the Sistine ceiling, perhaps the greatest painting ever made. It is exposed to view and yet cannot be seen. For one thing, it gleams a long way overhead, 68 feet at its apex, and it is enormous-5,599 square feet. The huge blue vault of air beneath it obscures all but the main figures...
...century pillar hermit. He promptly sheds all his clothes, capers among the fronds, and calls down unintelligible holy statements. Comments the narrator: "I could not resist a vague intellectual empathy toward the man who was now an abstraction - who had triumphantly nullified himself; who had attained the apex of an axiom." Similarly, in the title story, a "reliable, law-abiding, practical man" suddenly sloughs all his responsibilities to live adrift on a river in an open boat. There, fading from the reader's view, he seeks the spiritual dimension: the third bank of the river...
Queen Victoria has proved to be considerably more durable than the British Empire. The stage has become her throne and she has moved from history into legend. For Helen Hayes, the role was the apex of an acting career. For Dorothy Tutin, 37, whose dramatic resources are rich, varied and unspent, it is more like a tiara worn with casual ele gance. William Francis' Portrait of a Queen, which opened on Broadway last week, is not so much a play as a pastiche-part documentary chronicle, part dear-diary journal, part dusty archive of political feuds. Most attractively...
...list goes from A (Apex Amusement Inc.) to Z (Zenith Vending Corp.) and shows how widely the racketeers have diversified. The report lists food processing, restaurants, real estate, auto sales, brokerage houses, travel agencies, shopping centers, motels and radio and TV manufacturing as having been infiltrated by the syndicate. Fiore Buccieri, cited by the commission as one of the top 13, is secretary of the B & B Finance Co. His colleague Joseph DiVarco is a partner in a haberdashery...