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...come apart, as the photographers, appraisers and people from Sotheby Parke Bernet moved through it, checking and cataloguing, preparing the four-day auction that in June will scatter the mansion's contents for good. What had been the background to a life had already acquired a museum glaze; the invidious perfection of the showroom lay, like a cold sheet of plastic, on every tabletop and drawing. Its memory circuits had been...
Linowitz has no illusions about the difficulties ahead. "Let's face it," he said. "Certain words evoke a glaze in people's eyes. When you say world hunger, you lose them. Not only is it regarded as an insoluble and intractable problem, but it also seems to be far removed." He was particularly impressed by President Carter's insistence that he would fight world hunger "as hard as possible." Linowitz has also been encouraged by the interest shown in the commission by many members of Congress and international agencies. Said Linowitz, echoing one of Carter...
Gann would be the perfect subject for a memoir if gentlemanly reserve did not glaze over his confessions when he describes the people he has known. He gives a vivid account of how it was to see the dome of the Taj Mahal from several feet away, but is woefully reticent, for in stance, when he encounters another monument, Actor John Wayne. Chapters given to his divorce and remarriage show little more than the rough shape of a life. Only when Gann describes the drowning of his oldest son, who was chief mate on an unseaworthy tanker, does uncalculated emotion...
...interesting times," wouldn't seem a curse to a journalist. Editors deal in novelty and discovery; the negative and less talked-about side of this is knowing when to spare the reader the overfamiliar. Newsweek editors were once oddly attached to a cynical acronym, MEGO (My Eyes Glaze Over), applied to subjects they didn't want to hear more about. But anticipatory boredom can lead to being sated by a subject without having fully explored it. When the news trails off but the space or the air time to be filled is as large as ever, an editor...
Centralization also leads to slowdowns and foulups. Three times in the past 18 months, the University of Alabama in Birmingham has sent copies of its affirmative action plan to HEW'S Office for Civil Rights. Three times the office has lost it. Says University Vice President Robert Glaze: "You're talking about a document roughly the size of the Manhattan telephone book." When the plan was finally found, the civil rights office declared regulations had changed, and the plan must be resubmitted?at considerable cost to the university...