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...judicious editing it would be easy to turn Marin into a founding father of Abstract Expressionism, were it not for the inconvenient detail that he viewed all abstract art with crusty disdain. Reality-the flicker of bronze light on autumnal trees, the long profile of a beach in White Waves on Sand, Maine, the arches and pylons of Brooklyn Bridge, the scud and sough of an Atlantic sou'wester-was obdurate and irreducible for Marin, and had always to be returned to, loved, and above all, declared...
Fitfully, Richard Nixon slumbers. In dream review, his White House predecessors flicker past. There is Woodrow Wilson, railing against the Senate's "little group of willful men." He dissolves to Andrew Jackson, censured by the Senate for removing deposits from the Bank of the United States without authority. F.D.R., his aplomb punctured by a Senate that thwarted his attempt to pack the Supreme Court, snaps in and out of focus. Finally Lyndon Johnson, hounded from office amid the taunts of Senate doves, looms...
...burden, carrying enormous loads of food and firewood on their shoulders and heads. But it is also true that in the decade of social upheaval that has come with political independence, African women have begun to leave the villages and the townships to step quite suddenly, with hardly a flicker of their ebon eyes, into the modern world...
Before tree specialists stopped using hard pesticides like DDT to combat the elm disease, insecticide killings of birds were apparently common in Cambridge. Charles F. Walcott, a retired physician and amateur ornithologist, recalls seeing three insect-eating species-the robin, hermit thrush, and flicker-in "typical DDT convulsions" on his property off Sparks Street...
Bearded Ted Gold was the son of two physicians; his father, Hyman, is known as "the Movement Doctor" for his free treatment of penniless radicals. Gold was a bright, committed student in New York's Stuyvesant High, where a former teacher, Bernard Flicker, recalls: "He had everything-wit, charm. He could have been anything." At Columbia University, Gold began as a moderate leftist, working for civil rights and antiwar causes. But he moved further toward the fringe, Flicker says, and "began to feel that protests did no good, that nothing could change. In the end, he took the view...