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American presidential retreats have always expressed something of the personal style of the man in the White House - Richard Nixon's Key Biscayne and San Clemente, Lyndon Johnson's ranch. In years to come, the presidential style of leisure may be considerably grander. Last week Nixon signed a bill accepting an official new winter hideaway for the Presidents. It is Cereal Heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post's 110-room, $7,000,000 Mar-A-Lago, in Palm Beach, a kind of Moorish Xanadu built on 17 acres of hard coral between the Atlantic ocean front and Lake Worth...
...very mundane ups and downs which political life seems to devalue: the people we meet, the jokes we tell, the success we have in meeting our personal goals. The truckers of song live only in that world of daily battles. They make no pretense that anything of grander political scale is important and maybe that is why they are in a way before. The driver in "Six Days on the Road" offers no excuses...
...himself and his, worried about his own life more than his neighbor's. Horatio Alger may have entered McGovern's life, but not nearly so much as the apostle Peter. If there was endurance and struggle and self-improvement, it was often related to other people or grander designs. In those small towns of Depression days the churches taught history through the Bible and the music that came out of musty pump organs. There was the faint whiff of adventure from the missionary letters. So McGovern went out to serve people and to understand the world a little better...
...mammoth centennial celebration and the party was appropriately planned. There was a huge barbecue, with burgers, beer and cooks in ten-gallon hats. The backdrop could not have been grander-Yellowstone National Park's majestic peaks and verdant valleys. Yet as night fell and the ceremony continued, sleet swept over the assembled dignitaries. Interior Secretary Rogers Morton talked on (and on). Numbed with cold, Montana's Bozeman High School band packed up their instruments. Finally, wearing a brave, frozen smile, Mrs. Richard Nixon held aloft a symbolic torch, and the U.S.'s national park system officially entered...
...playing of the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies (Nos. 12 and 17) was startling--without a trace of the vulgarity usually read into this composer's works. One might argue for a "grander" rendition of no. 12, although I was quite satisfied to hear, for once, the purely musical aspects of Liszt. The absence of ostentation was particularly appropriate in the more austere, tonally ambiguous seventeenth Rhapsody, in which it is evident, contrary to popular notion, what a serious composer Liszt often...