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...discuss issues, their opinions tend toward the predictable: "peace with honor" in a war that the President inherited and is only trying to end?just don't turn it over to the Communists overnight. (It is interesting that the word Commie has all but disappeared from the political lexicon.) No amnesty for draft resisters. Busing is bad, or else does not matter much any more...
FRANKFURTER can be found just below Frankenstein in the dictionary. It can also be found immediately beneath contempt in Ralph Nader's vast lexicon of villains. To Nader, the ABM and the smart bomb are scarcely more lethal than a chain of processed sausages. Hot dogs, insists the consumer advocate, are "among America's deadliest missiles." New York City's Consumer Affairs Commissioner Bess Myerson agrees: "After I found out what was in hot dogs, I stopped eating them." This people's entrée, this frank companion of alfresco meals and ball games...
...Republican Convention revived an old code word in the American political lexicon: quota. The Democratic reforms this year employed a kind of quota system to require more representation among the delegates for women, blacks and young people. Many Democrats were themselves disturbed by the quotas; at Miami Beach, the President and other G.O.P. speakers damned them as anathema to the American system. The resonance of the issue may well carry through the campaign...
...course, President Nixon and Vice President Agnew have made their own special contribution to the lexicon of excess. Those who profess deep social feelings, as George McGovern surely does, seek to authenticate them with verbal ultimates. But the process wrings out our political vocabularies, corrupts them, drains them of meaning...
...intervening 600 years. To Moore, who first visited Florence on a traveling scholarship in 1925, the city is "my artistic home." The shapes of Tuscany-from the consoling, breastlike curves of its domes to the muscular run and clench of the Apennine horizon-have remained fundamental in his lexicon of form, giving it a stringency as well as a sense of humanistic presence that is unique in contemporary sculpture. One does not look to Moore's work for surprises but for a sense of continuity...