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...biting but witty chapter called "Domestic Dissonance," he dramatizes how the character of public experience carries over into the home. The laissez-faire economy of the past he relates easily to what he describes as the laissez-faire American marriage of the present. ("One of man's earliest accomplishments," he observes in a sentence that will please feminists, "was inventing the arrangement whereby the opinions and energies of half the population could be carefully controlled...
...odorless, visible, and spun into circles with glass sides. Perhaps I felt it was like pouring oil on the oil of the problems I carried in with me. Perhaps leaving clamorous, febrile Harvard Square to go to the slow and unguent Aquarium seemed like treading through Louisiana in the earliest morning, interrupting the scudding smokes of the rousing heat and resolute dry plants, with a newspaper tucked implacably, disharmoniously under arm. There should be a sign: "Leave your newspapers at the door. Don't soil the flowers with their bleeding ink." So I stepped out of the Aquarium onto...
...Curator Berry Tracy spent three years tracking down and assembling some 300 pieces, many destined for permanent exhibition when the museum expands its American Wing. One of the earliest rooms contains a severe but elegant Duncan Phyfe parlor set done around 1837 in the master's late Empire style. Twenty years later, the fashion for historical revivals was in full swing; the yellow satin sofa and chairs of the John Taylor Johnston parlor are a free adaptation of Louis XVI neoclassicism by the French-trained New York designer Léon Marcotte. Over them hangs a chandelier that cunningly...
Besides broadcasting the Maoist unofficial anthem ("The East is Red, the sun rises, Mao Tse-tung comes out in the East . . ."), the latest satellite was roughly twice the size of the earliest 1957-vintage Russian Sputnik 1. Its launching demonstrated that China has joined the ranks of the U.S., the Soviet Union, France and Japan in developing both rocketry and electronic gear capable of such a feat...
...Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously requested a face-to-face meeting with Nixon "at his earliest convenience" to discuss the implications of the invasion. The formal request by the committee was the first such bid to a President since the debate over the League of Nations 51 years...