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...anyway, Tony reads last week's column, right, (which, I might preface this week's column by saying, was brilliant, and, if not brilliant, at least it was art, and you don't cavil with art), and he comes up to me this week during the ritual "doling out of magazine space," he comes up to me, and he says to me, "Vomit. People like Harry's column and they think your thing is vomit...
...scenario: unattached, eccentric adults involved in a quixotic caper because of their love for animals. William himself realizes that the turtle heist is "the sort of situation that would be ever so charming and human in a film with Peter Ustinov and Maggie Smith." But he has a significant cavil: "That sort of film is only charming because they leave out so many details, and real life is all the details they leave...
...behind the foreign policy thing. We have a government of guys who went to the same schools and who have shaped our ideas of what is right or wrong. Up until Vietnam, most of us and certainly the entire media bought these views without any kind of cavil...
Hirshhorn's instinct for painting seems to have been weaker than for sculpture. There, nobody could cavil at the major works he has supplied Washington-the Giacomettis, the Daumiers, at least some of the 15 Moores, Rodin's Burghers of Calais and stupendous Balzac, Picasso's Baby Carriage, and the great series of Matisse's Backs of a Woman, to name only...
...saddest days of my life." Many, like Georgia Party Chairman Robert J. Shaw, wept. John J. McCloy, an elder among New York Republicans, called the Nixon speech "a dignified statement, a dignified exit," adding: "We shouldn't expect any more than what it contained; we shouldn't cavil at it now." After watching the Nixon speech in California, Governor Ronald Reagan, who had continued to support the President until only a day earlier, said that he felt Nixon had made "the right decision for the country...