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...flourished, but which achieved things of great value. John's painting is not much regarded today, but he was an immense character. Seen from close up by Nicolette's appraising eye, he is not as admirable as he appears in his own autobiographical fragment, Chiaroscuro, or as bogus as in Aldous Huxley's satirical portrait of him as "John Bidlake" in Point Counter Point. Nicolette writes well, with a painter's eye for places and faces and a feminine instinct for character. These qualities plus Irish wit lend a novelistic point to her portraits of some...
...reversing the law of gravity. But the laws of levity begin to go topsyturvy as well in Agent's craven acts of homage to its prototype. Curling under Adams' sheets, one pussycat purrs: "I met someone like you in Florida. Called himself James . . . James Something." If the bogus Bonds abhor originality, they should at least show enough professional savvy to cover their tracks...
Part of his strength came from a sense of tradition rooted in his dissenting German-American ancestors, who were Utopian colonists, freethinkers, socialist craftsmen and abolitionists. The rest of it came from an indestructible innocence that helped him to survive bohemia's bad art, freewheeling sex and bogus labor evangelism. He did not renounce his old causes; the secular faith of socialism simply ran out on him. "The moral content of the old radical movement has vanished altogether," he writes today. "The classics of socialist and anarchist literature seem at mid-century to speak a foolish and naive language...
Donahue has further obstructed the implementation of Governor Volpe's plan by introducing bogus issues into the so-called "Great Tax Debate." The sales tax, he maintains, is really a confrontation between rich and poor, liberal and conservative, Democrat and Republican. And since Massachusetts voters are poor, Democratic, and liberal, the Senator is convinced that they favor his opposition to the bill...
...combat the new low mountain morality, ski areas are fighting back. Bogus Basin, Idaho, now hires off-duty deputy sheriffs to patrol the piste in "plain clothes," passes out notices to advertise the fact. Squaw Valley has put up posters offering $100 reward to those who can catch a thief. And resorts as chic and cher as Vail, Colo., have been forced to install racks that lock skis in place...