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...pity that McCarthy's poems will be denied the autonomy of anonymity. Many have wit, candor, grace, style and the nicest sort of sentiment. As the poet says, "Do not look long on a harbor from which all ships are gone...
Beyond that programmatic balance sheet, a central failing of the Nixon Administration has to do with an intangible but important matter of tone. As LIFE comments in an editorial this week, the problem involves an isolation from the public, a certain absence of candor, and even Nixon's lack of ease with his fellow men. "So often a nation wants to hear a President speaking to, and for, all of the people," says LIFE, "and so often it hears a Nixon argument tailored to a segment of the public. The curious paradox of Nixon is that even when...
...lead, in the process, to a new degree of candor in our Government's relations with its own citizens and in a new degree of respect by the citizens for their government. We can thereby begin to cleanse ourselves of the war's most debilitating poison: collective deception and national self-deception...
Playmen started out to imitate Playboy, although more prudently: the first Girl of the Month held her hands over her bosom. But in the last year or so, Playmen has taken on a style and candor of its own. Playmen's nudes are women, not girls, and rather normal women at that. Reflecting European tastes, Playmen does not display the mammary obsession that Playboy profitably discerns in Americans. Says Publisher Tattilo: "The U.S. is a matriarchy. I think this is the reason for the American male preference for women with exaggerated, voluminous bosoms, true wet nurses with a reassuring...
Eight years later, as Ne Win himself once admitted in a rare moment of candor, Burma is "in a mess." The economy, almost totally nationalized, has virtually ceased to function. Last spring the state-owned distribution system collapsed altogether, and Rangoon shoppers who queue up before dawn are lucky if the shelves are not totally bare a few minutes after the People's Stores open. Prices have risen fivefold since 1962, but rice exports, once the largest in the world, are down to less than a third of their precoup levels...