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These are not, to put it mildly, the conditions that govern what passes for advanced art today, especially in New York. The Avant-Garde Festival, held this fall on a boat moored at the South Street Seaport in Manhattan, was a fair example of the problem: a confusion of irresolute trivia, ranging from a cabin full of autumn leaves (which, at least, the kids enjoyed throwing around), through numerous video pieces, to Charlotte Moorman-who enjoys a fame of sorts as the world's only topless cellist-playing her instrument under water. It was all so affably amateurish, like...
...counter-charges growing out of the Watergate political-espionage investigations. A criminal trial, several civil suits, a Senate committee investigation led by Democrats, all may poison the atmosphere. The highly protective and pugnacious White House domestic staff seems more adept at political infighting than at helping the President govern by conciliating contending factions...
...party bloodbath so soon after the electoral massacre. Westwood, moreover, is playing her own brand of survival politics. Rather than stacking key party posts with McGovernites, she has been appointing people from other sections of the party. Because she was shut out of any major role in the Mc-Govern campaign, she has had time to do a little work for herself. Thus her travels to see Wallace and other Southern Governors. Reminding people that she managed Humphrey's campaign in Utah in 1968, she insists: "I have run coalition politics in my own state...
...recaptured. Said Muskie after the election: "We've got to assure working-class Americans as well as poor Americans that their concerns are high in our priorities." For the past few years, however, the Democratic Party has been drifting away from its moorings among blue-collar workers; Mc-Govern's candidacy simply speeded up the flight. The intellectuals who plan party strategy and the lesser lights who are supposed to carry it out have become mistrustful of each other. It will take skillful brokerage by party professionals to make peace between the two hostile camps if the Democrats...
...abortion, amnesty, marijuana. "Unfortunately for the country, there were a lot of nonissues in this campaign," Kennedy told TIME on Election Night, "and the Republicans were able to capitalize on them." Loyally refusing to accept the massive defeat as a rejection of Democratic Party philosophy, Kennedy gives George Mc-Govern credit for "plowing lots of new ground in this campaign. As in the case of Adlai Stevenson, McGovern may well have pointed to a direction in which this country will move in the years to come...