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...institutional reform and delivery of services. Richardson has traveled fairly widely among his constituents-visiting poor Chicanos in San Antonio and coal miners in West Virginia, for example. His speeches are known for a certain meticulous dullness, but as he told the black Capitol Press Club recently, "as you descend in eloquence, you get closer to the money." One of his predecessors in the toughest Cabinet job, John Gardner, believes that "if he gets any kind of breaks, he'll be one of the best of HEW secretaries. You don't need a Lone Ranger. You need...
...audience and cast to have fun. Such an approach to theatre is by its very nature limited. Senelick and his cast are intensely aware of these limits, and for the most part stay within them. The production only falters when it attempts to ascend to purposeless artiness or descend into calculated spontaneity...
...insufficient dimension, from above, the narrow hand would stretch in a plane beyond the limits of either eye, and from the blue would emerge the invisible colors changing so patiently that one could as well walk from sun to shadow in the same ignorance of perfect vision to descend, however, from wings to the land beyond the blue plain begin, continuing to the great mountains in measureless distance, great dunes of sand, they are vulnerable, massive changing with the clouds, their gravity, constant in change, they are not gold, nor golden color borne of texture below the surface, the refraction...
...with pink cherry and magnolia blossoms, and deluged with tourists. One morning nearly 10,000 visitors queued up to tour the White House. Along the black iron White House fence 37 women, mainly suburban housewives, chained themselves in protest against the Viet Nam War. Peace marchers are about to descend on Washington en masse (see following story), but the city seems unperturbed. On the Capitol lawn, a group of Democratic presidential hopefuls, including Senators Birch Bayh of Indiana. Henry Jackson of Washington, and Harold Hughes of Iowa, startled passers-by as they sat down to dessert al fresco. The herring...
...Pants. The replica of a Follies show highlights the evening. The re-creation is titled Loveland, and there is a shivery moment as the tall, lovely girls descend the traditional staircase. Beauty dapples the stage like a cascade of roses. Each of the four principals does a song or dance number denoting his or her folly: Buddy's is self-hatred; Sally's, being in love with love; Phyllis', a blurred identity; Ben's, self-proving quests, no satisfying goals...