Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bland & Bleak. Historically, the artists acknowledge a debt to the Russian constructivists, and have words of praise for the industrial approach of such sculptors as Alexander Calder and the late David Smith. They wax hot for Geodetic Architect Buckminster Fuller. Their enthusiasm for painters tends to focus on Barnett Newman, whose works are uncompromising vertical stripes, and Ad Reinhardt, whose severely dark-hued abstracts look almost jet black...
...battered Daimler eats up both sides of the road, veers away into grassy fields, finally wheezes to a halt at one of England's stateliest homes. Out of the limousine steps Sophia Loren as Lady L, a spruce 80-year-old who bears a striking resemblance to the late Dowager Queen Mary. Well-wishers greet her with respect, for she is the progenitor of four generals, an admiral, a bishop and other dignitaries, several of whose names escape...
...late now to be yourself...
...Those Coronations. As a vaguely "loyal" Briton, this bothers him. He publicly refuses to swear that he will not overthrow the Government of the United States by force and so sparks a bout of local McCarthyism (the late Senator's name still evokes crocodile fears in liberal British hearts), from which he emerges an embarrassed hero. Agog with admiration, a leggy, Kierkegaard-quoting girl bagpiper sweeps him off in her car for a premarital shakedown trip to Mexico, where she hopes to make a real swinger of him, but, depressed by his invincible fuddy-duddery, gives...
...something less than a referendum on Vietnam policy; the results will also depend on normal partisan alignments, differences on domestic policy, and personal popularity, that the general public can be separated into neat groups of hawks, doves, Administration backers and "peacenicks." Actually, the most through public opinion poll, conducted late last winter by political scientists at Stanford and Chicago, shows the majority of Americans to be profoundly ambivalent about the war. Fifty-six per cent opposed even a gradual withdrawal, 61 per cent approved President Johnson's actions, but 54 per cent opposed a continuation...