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...Government that figures that the end justifies the means, that tries to hide its transgressions and hamper its own lesser officials charged with seeking the truth. The President's closest legal adviser has even been accused of lying to the FBI. There is an aura of disconcerting chumminess between Nixon officials and corporate executives seeking favors or suspected of violating federal laws...
Probably not, but women-as well as men-seem more than willing to go back to the aura, if not all the details, of granddad's illusions. Milan's Walter Albini, who might be called the godfather of the Italian Gatsby look, has drawn on the Fitzgerald era since he first started designing ten years ago. "It was a cultural high-water mark in fashion, decorating, literature, painting," he contends. "Actually, nobody has done anything new since. Everything is still based on Chanel of around 1925." (Designer Coco Chanel revolutionized fashion for both sexes in the early...
...What I really want to do," says Bok, "is give the Yard the aura of a great grassy mall. That would be a really handsome sight...
Once again an aura of deception and a chummy kind of mutual self-protection emanated from the all too familiar Watergate wiretapping and bugging conspiracy of last June. But now it was not so much the fact that seven paid agents of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President had carried out that political espionage operation against Democratic National Headquarters, although their conviction for doing so was serious in itself. The hearings on Gray disclosed that he took at face value almost every denial of White House involvement, even though many Washington observers at least speculated that...
...AURA OF UNREALITY surrounding last week's developments related to Indochina is familiar. But last week the confusion came from the genuinely contradictory implications of events on three continents, and did not merely grow out of the government's tendency to cloud any important issue with incomprehensible rhetoric...