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...arises: just why is McGovern going to do so poorly? In a recent article in the New York Review of Books, Christopher Lasch argues that McGovern fails to make an impact on people because he has not assumed a populist stance. In a recent interview, Jack Newfield and Jeff Greenfield, authors of the book A Populist Manifesto, took a similar stance. After hearing McGovern on the stump for a week, it is fair to say that this assertion is simply not true. McGovern consistently attacks the Nixon administration for selling out to "special interests" and proceeds to attacks the President...
...lesson of two fall exhibitions of Japanese art, seen at its utmost pitch of refinement. One is a selection of 235 works of the Rimpa school-scrolls, screens and lacquer-at the Tokyo National Museum, the other a show of inros, netsukes and sword guards from the Charles A. Greenfield collection at Manhattan's Japan House...
...With the Greenfield collection at Japan House, scale and focus change: it is a triumph of the small. "Intimacy" here is more than a catchword, for nearly every item in this array-reputedly the best private collection of its kind in the world-was designed to nestle in the hand, and their ravishing tactile subtleties are lost behind glass. The largest are Suzuribako or writing boxes: a 16th century case with a gold-lacquer hare, or Kinyosai's delicately humorous image of a lady spurting ink from her mouth onto a wall to form the characters for "perseverance...
...instinct for design required a counterpoint between the case and its toggle (usually made by different artists). Over the centuries, most inros have lost their netsukes, and one of the delights of the Greenfield collection is the care with which appropriate matching has been restored. Thus a war helmet and mask on Koma Kyuhaku's 18th century inro are complemented by a fierce little demon mask with ivory horns. In a sense, the extreme limit of aestheticization was reached by the makers of tsubas. Considered merely as an object, the 19th century sword guard of the blue-black copper...
Another nagging problem of the new populism is the source of the money for the social reform programs which Newfield, Greenfield, and McGovern have supported. The cost of financing the Kennedy National Health Insurance bill would be staggering. And if taxes are to be raised to pay for such a program, some of the increase will fall on the shoulders of the working class...