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...late by then. The ideas you espoused had unleashed the mob; the very fabric of civilization was shredded. At least we were able to protect the system against such total onslaughts in this country." Hamilton had always had a feel for his adversary's philosophical weaknesses. "I fully understand how Mr. Nixon felt," he said. "A mob -not unlike the Paris mob or the St. Petersburg mob-was baying in the streets of America. The President believed there were foreign influences. The newspapers were printing national secrets purloined by traitors. Mr. Nixon seemed to believe that extraordinary methods were...
This concern for urban fabric led Weese to his first renovation job-Chicago's Auditorium Theater. Designed by Adler and Sullivan in the 1880s, it had become a U.S.O. club with bowling alleys and finally ended as a neglected shell. Its roof leaked; its 4,000 velvet-covered seats were rotting. Weese meticulously restored the stately interior with its soaring arches, curving balconies and richly ornamental plaster friezes. The work cost $2,000,000 and was finished in 1967. The result: a glowing, golden concert and opera hall with near perfect acoustics...
...fact, the entire plan emphatically downplays the automobile. It includes no new superhighways or highway interchanges. "Nothing destroys the community fabric, the neighborhood focus, more than highways," says Harold Jensen of Illinois Center Corp. Instead, a feeder subway line will be built, plus new parking lots at terminal points of mass transit lines. Traffic consultant Bob Maxman of Alan Vorhees & Associates explains: "We tried to give the city not to cars but back to the people...
...because of television's power that the Watergate hearings have perhaps served to mend, rather than rend the political and social fabric. To be sure, Senators are not above using the networks for publicity, but they have been scrupulous about the witnesses' rights and privileges-within the fairly loose rules of a Senate hearing. The witnesses, whether genuinely innocent, regretful or simply anxious to avoid the ultimate penalties, are only too ready to inform the world of past transgressions. The result of all this has been a sense of assurance, a feeling that the country's temperature...
Love derives much of its strength from the fine accumulation of gesture and detail that Director Makk has worked into the modest fabric of his story. An old lady (Lili Darvas), nearly 100 and dying with dignity and resignation from the kind of fatigue that cannot be diagnosed or reversed, lies all day in her bed, tended by a maid and by her daughter-in-law Luca (Mari Torocsik). The old lady lives in a twilight of memory, where past and present tend to flow together into a kind of future-imperfect tense. The room is kept clean and carefully...