Word: dis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thinks much at all, in the roar and glitter. On the street outside a crowd has gathered, attracted by the klieg lights swooping over Cambridge, and by Robert Blake, Man of the Year. Blake, who says he's "never won nuttin' like dis before", leans out the window and waves to his teenage fans. After a while he is pulled back inside, and the window shut. Those within have paid to laugh; serious adulation is out of place...
...copier may have its faults, but the machine is, after all, a relatively recent invention. Once some of the novelty wears off, Xerox users will probably learn to be a little more dis criminating about what they copy. And despite the machine's debilitating effects on letter-writing, the great god Xeros has kept his part of the bargain: the copy ing machine does make it easier for in formation to be spread. Certainly any thing that greases the path of knowledge is a net gain for society. Besides, with more than 2 million machines...
...Cesare Borgia with twice the brains, and Machiavelli with half the caution and a hundred times the will. He was an Italian made skeptical by Voltaire, subtle by the ruses of survival in the Revolution, sharp by the daily duel of French intellects." The historians dis play such artistry too sparingly. Still, these most popular popularists are incapable of writing a dull book or a trivial one. The Age of Napoleon is not their best book, but it is their last. Readers can mourn that statement - and celebrate the fact that the Durants have contributed so much to the American...
Such self-protective quasi candor is a characteristic of all political autobi ographies; Mrs. Meir's memory is no worse than the next leader's. What dis figures her book is an unbecoming - and unfamiliar - reticence, coupled with an artificial folksy tone. Her recollections too often sound like Molly Goldberg with portfolio, handing out 40,000 recipes for chicken soup on a U.S. visit or brewing 4 a.m. tea for herself and her bodyguards in the prime ministerial kitchen. More important, revelations that might have been expected have been dodged...
...buildings were symbols of official ego, but also were intended as public dis play. They were designed for a self-confident bourgeoisie convinced it had inherited the earth. The decorations, the swags and massive vaults, the palatial baroque of the Beaux-Arts - all conspired to suggest to those who used the buildings that, in Drexler's words, "they were the reason for the Republic...