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...nothing else, the stone stone, the concrete concrete. I just learned it so thoroughly, the orders and the elements. And from there I learned that a stair isn't just something you get out of a catalogue but a very important event in a building. I never forgot such principles. From this I sensed the eternity qualities of architecture. In the beginning lies eternity. It can never come about without the feeling that it's absolutely right, that there is no precedent before...
...Lindsay traipsed out into Queens to explain why those snow plows couldn't come right away, left-liberals have been under attack for having forgotten the "peripheral urban ethnics." Liberals (so the criticism goes) were so wrapped up in furthering the causes of blacks and the young that they forgot about the people who had given them so much support over the years. Radical chic has become distinctly un-chic. Last fall, Nixon and Agnew did everything short of eating pizza and kielbasa in their effort to corner the ethnic market, and George McGovern became the first Democrat in years...
...notion of violence, artistically treated, pleases me aesthetically. People died in the Wild Bunch with more simultaneous grace and realism than I'd ever seen. And I admired the cinematic ingenuity displayed in the assault sequence of Straw Dogs. I couldn't recoil in horror because I never forgot I was watching a movie...
...consequences have not been lost on the patrons. One couple ended up with two waiters who forgot the appetizers until prodded. The bread was taken away too soon, the pasta and soup courses were omitted, and the second waiter offered extra deserts as reparations while forgetting the salad. Bottles of wine mysteriously appeared but no one offered to open them. And should the food arrive, it is likely to be cold...
...eligibility for other benefits. Such a directive was carefully included in legislation, introduced early this congressional session, that would have raised Social Security payments 5%. But when Senators and Congressmen decided to boost the increase to 20%, they voted the change as an amendment to another bill, and forgot to tack on the directive...