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...opening my mailbox and catching a glimpse of Robert Vickrey's cover portrait of John Updike tumble out [April 26], I was instantly impressed with a feeling of Andrew Wyeth's nostalgic quality. Being a Wyeth fan, I immediately dove into your cover article and was quite pleased with myself and with Robert Vickrey on reading of John Earth's comparison of the artist Wyeth to the author Updike. I am now hurriedly on my way to our library to uncover every novel by Updike I can find...
...hand, is pushed on to stage center by a Large But disjoined paw from the wings. A frantic Dick Nixon, decked out as a magician, thrusts his arm into a hat and plucks out a hairy hawk clutching a bomb. "And voila," says Nixon, "we haul out a dove . . . a dove . . . I'll have to ask you to imagine this is a dove...
Thomson discusses the problems of "executive fatigue" and the inertia and "curator mentalities" of many officials as crucial factors in our Vietnam and larger Asian policy. He tells of the "domestication of dissenters" (one employer, Thomson wrote, used to refer to him as his "favorite dove"). And he describes the "effectiveness trap" which "keeps men from speaking out, as clearly or often as they might," in order "to preserve their effectiveness" as another factor leading to the kind of freezing of ideas that is so prevalent in Washington...
...been clear for some months now that the bird of Wall Street is the dove. So it was no real surprise last week when new hope for peace in Viet Nam gave the stock market an exuberant lift. A paroxysm of trading twice shattered daily volume records on the New York Stock Exchange and sent share prices up enough to erase a third of the past winter's losses. Then, at week's end, the market settled back and waited to react again to events...
...curriculum accents learning by "discovery" and subtly prods the children to teach one another. To act out childhood fantasies, they create weird costumes and run off in them to Central Park, where, as one student wrote in his daily journal, he simply "spied on people." One classroom contains eight doves, a skink, boa constrictor, canary, goldfish, turtles and families of gerbils and mice. The mating habits of a pair of doves, Hawk and Paloma, led to a highly explicit discussion of reproduction, all duly recorded in a scrapbook labeled the "Dove Book." The animals provide a common community of interest...