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...that extraordinary exchange-unthinkable at a presidential press conference in preWatergate days-Gerald Ford last week effectively summed up the homespun precepts that will guide his Administration. "I will be as candid and as forthright as I possibly can," he promised. "I will expect any individuals in my Administration to be exactly the same. There will be no tightly controlled operation of the White House staff." He firmly added: "I will make the decisions and take the blame for them or whatever benefit might be the case...
Missouri's Hungate stressed that the article was based on a pattern of presidential misconduct rather than on isolated acts. Conceding that "men are human; humans are frail," he said that "a consistent disregard of the law" was involved. Typically, Hungate gave a homespun example of the difference: "If a man is driving in his car and he crosses the center line, that is not grounds for a whole lot of punishment ... but if he crosses the center line 15 times every mile he drives or if he insists on straddling the center line all the time, then...
...eyes." This pitchman's approach, aimed at newsstand buyers of books on the occult, is misleading, for the product, a slim volume entitled The Circus of Dr. Lao, is no tawdry sci-fi thriller. It is instead a blending of the sardonic style of Ambrose Bierce and the homespun hyperbole of Mark Twain...
Huck himself (Jeff East) has been changed into a sort of homespun civil rights worker who comes easily to his vision of the brotherhood of man. "Why, Jim!" he exclaims, looking at the slave's wounded neck. "Your blood's red same as mine!" Twain's Huck, it will be recalled, was a good deal troubled by matters of conscience, and it took him most of the book to wrestle down the acquired prejudices of Southern boyhood. Hardly a doubt stirs this Huck, of course. He is a real nice boy from the very start -maybe just...
...Spring, presented for the first time on disc in the version for 13 instruments (strings, woodwinds, piano) originally written for Martha Graham in 1944. Lighter and leaner than Copland's later scoring for full orchestra, this interpretation is an exquisite way to rehear - or meet - one of the homespun classics of 20th century American music...