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POLITICS is a monster in the land; it is bigger, louder, more expensive than ever, even if the latest campaign-spending-limitation bill becomes law. It is airplanes, polls and delegate counts. It is cocktail parties, TV cameras and ghostwriters. The campaign of '72 just might expend more national energy and resources than any in history and enlighten the people less...
...other side of the Honda phenomenon. The Honda is a handicap from the cost and saving side. But it may also be a strong force motivating the economy to exert itself. Economic development depends on rising expectations and on the ability and the willingness of the country to expend effort. Despite the fact that government policies have militated against national saving, the attitude of the individual, as one observes him in the country and the cities, is directed to industry rather than idleness...
...years ago, the late art historian Erwin Panofsky spoke approvingly of "the unselfish rapacity of the museum director." As time passes, and as the use and function of museums come under more rigorous examination, it is arguable that the rapacity that impelled Thomas Hoving to expend more than $5.5 million on the Met's new Velasquez is not, however great the painting may be, unselfish...
...money deployed on buying art and the money available for preserving masterpieces that cannot, by their nature or circumstances, be sold -unmovable art like buildings, frescoes, or even entire cities of cherishable antique beauty. Only a spectacular disaster like the Florence flood of November 1966 will provoke people to expend large sums of money on saving art that they do not own. Because of the publicity campaigns mounted by organizations to save Venice from decaying into an empty, waterlogged Renaissance Disneyland, it may yet stand some chance of at least partial preservation as a city. But the Parthenon, under...
Palliative. No one can reckon the moral and emotional coin that the U.S. must eventually expend for the war in Viet Nam. General Creighton Abrams, the U.S. commander in Viet Nam, felt it necessary last week to warn against any form of "laxity" among the remaining G.I.s as the American pullout continues. Said Abrams: "It requires a herculean effort to keep alertness up." President Nixon acknowledges that heroin addiction in the military has become a serious problem; he is about to announce an ambitious federal program to combat the narcotics crisis through a new Government agency. It would confront...