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...writing table and bulletin board can be folded down to a rectangle only three inches thick. There are dining-room sets that collapse into practically nothing, a mini-kitchen that is housed inside a unit the size of a rolling bar and even an "environmental bower," a kind of cocoon that can be set up in any room to provide quiet and privacy. There, presumably, one can dream of times more spacious and sedentary...
...POETRY of W.S. Merwin is stillborn, shaped in the silence of introspection. It never comes out of its cocoon, but chooses instead to remain inside and reveal the intensity of inner vision. One poem, "On Each Journey," describes the feelings you have reading Merwin...
...Laird, Bryce Harlow, the new White House political operative, and Al Haig, the chief of staff, are fighting this crushing weight of discouragement. So is Nixon in a way, but he remains a distracted-and now ill-man. ("How do we get him out of that cocoon?" worried one White House official last week...
...experience of looking at Arbus's photography is so vital because the subject matter and style are thoroughly intertwined. They evolve into a vivid documentary recreation of the artist's personal encounters with reality. Breaking out of the stifling cocoon of a wealthy family, and reacting against the highly stylized fashion photography of her job, Diane Arbus made her foray into the freak world to establish a much needed contact with a hard core reality. She was motivated by this psychological drive and not by any perverse delight in the sensationalism of the subject matter. Overcoming ingrained social inhibitions, Arbus...
...know until late March how thoroughly Watergate had tainted his Administration, it was largely because he had deliberately kept himself so many removes from reality. Now, in spite of the lesson of Watergate, a year after the case broke Nixon remains unwilling to emerge from the cocoon of his own making. He never watches television news programs, let alone the Watergate hearings-though he could argue that he cannot afford the time. Press reports are still passed up to him in summaries prepared by the White House staff...