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With unusual candor, Johnson admitted that the Administration's monetary and fiscal actions have "not always been perfectly timed or in precisely the right degree," but he insisted that he had moved "consistently in the right direction." The trouble with the tuning machinery of the new economics, he seemed to be implying, was mostly some loose wires in Congress. Johnson asserted that "damage has already been done" by congressional failure to enact the tax surcharge. "In the next few weeks," he added, "we must demonstrate that we can raise as well as lower taxes...
...demythologizer about them. One seven-year-old penned:"Dear God, I am writing to you even though you can't write back I think and you are not a person. But I wanted to write anyway. Love, Karen" The letters, like children themselves, have a refreshing curiosity and candor about God and his works. One young writer, possibly a budding Biblical scholar, asserted: "Dear God, I read your book and I like it. I would like to write a book some day with the same kind of stories. Where do you get your ideas? Best wishes, Mark...
...height of his fame and powers in 1800 when, as first court painter, he was called on by his sovereign, King Charles IV, to immortalize the royal family. The shimmering panorama that Goya created has been called his supreme tour de force. With devastating candor, he laid bare the indolence of the King, the shallow depravity of Queen Maria Luisa (whose intrigues on behalf of her lover Godoy had reduced the Bourbon court to its final debility), and the self-centered vacuity of their relations. In imitation of Velasquez' 1656 portrayal of the royal maids of honor, Las Meninas...
...anything the Swedes have said. Even a conspicuous failure such as John Huston's Reflections in a Golden Eye bleeds color images through black-and-white in a startling extension of the camera's palette. U.S. movies are now treating once-shocking themes with a maturity and candor unthinkable even five years ago: the life of drug addicts in Chappaqua, homosexuality in Reflections, racial hatred in In the Heat of the Night. And The Graduate, a new Mike Nichols film, is an alternately comic and graphic closeup of a 19-year-old boy whose sexual fantasies come terrifyingly...
...world is a fiscal mess. Once a beacon of hope for people everywhere, America is now widely regarded as belligerent and domineering. We are mixed in an Asian land war which sacrifices our young men and drains our resources, with no end in sight. False optimism and lack of candor on the part of our leaders have confused our citizens and sapped their resolve. A Republican President can work for a just peace in Viet Nam unshackled by mistakes of the past...