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...candidates come up with ridiculous pledges, like the one about setting foot in all 50 states (Nixon in 1960). That is an exercise in locomotion, not intelligence. Rushing madly along the trail, looking over their shoulders at the pursuers and scared to death of making misstatements in the blur, the men have tended in recent years to grow more and more reluctant to commit themselves on vital issues. Richard Nixon refused in 1968 to divulge any detail of his plan to end the war, the most important issue before the nation...
...contemporary American historian who wishes to rise above the fray, the options are few. He can reject the current revisionist trend and adopt an orthodox stance. He can synthesize the two strands and turn out the definitive work. Or he can borrow a little from each, blur the basic issues, and emerge with a book that seems statesmanlike only because it is so jejune. Adam Ulam took the last choice; the result is his intellectually anemic study, The Rivals: America and Russia Since World...
...Shouts. A special challenge to a commuting student is tardiness: two would-be scholars found that the classroom had left before they got to the station. Still, New York commuters are famous for adaptability, and the 23 who did make it were no exceptions. Not the conductor, the blur of passing towns, sexy billboard advertisements or occasional stops seemed to bother anyone. Professor Desmond Reilly, a moonlighting advertising manager from the Olin Corp., stood in the center of the car. He made himself heard clearly over the rumble of the wheels by using a microphone; microphones are about...
...Between begins with images and words which suggest that tired tricks are abandoned, and that Losey and Pinter have put a novelistic concentration of characterization and detail on the screen. The credits are projected against a raindropped windowpane: we see glimpses of green foliage and a manor-like brown blur. A pitted voice speaks: "The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there...
...revolutionize painting. He remained a light-struck realist to the end of his days. His early work shows, however, that the shapes and, above all, the light of Paris, as well as the Impressionist ambience, did much for his eye and his palette. Back in the U.S., the attractive blur of Impressionism vanishes from his oils. The light flattens, shadows are sharper and more sculptural, forms grow increasingly solid and defined, as in The Dories, Ogunquit, which suggests that Hopper might even have picked up a notion or two from his contemporary, Marsden Hartley. But his paintings did not find...