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...Several have gained special recognition for their Watergate coverage. Stern, 36, became familiar to millions of viewers of the televised Watergate hearings when NBC Anchor Man John Chancellor would turn to his colleague and inquire, "What's the law on that, Carl?" After one of Stern's lucid explanations on some fine point raised in the hearings, Chancellor would wryly thank the "Chief Justice...
...part because he is widely read, he has been consistently snubbed by what is conveniently called the critical community. Auchincloss, 56, a graduate of Groton and Yale and a practicing Wall Street lawyer, writes mainly about the declines and cushioned falls of good-family New Yorkers. He is a lucid, confident and tidy observer of this small community; yet many critics (expecting, maybe, Henry James) refuse to accept Auchincloss as the teller of well-tailored stories that...
There is, of course, a difference between the lucid gray washes and quick flecks of ink with which the painter Chii-jan, at the end of the 10th century, painted a Buddhist Retreat by Stream and Mountain, and the clumsy spatterings that often declare "spontaneity" in the West. It is partly a difference of insight -Chii-jan's mountain, breathed into serenely vertical form, layer by stratified layer, is as mysterious in its allusions to geological time as any Leonardo landscape. It is also a difference of discipline. The wen-jen served no apprenticeship, and the idea of being...
...acknowledgment of TV's limitation in clarifying so complex and voluminous a pile of data was accurate enough. But the advice that Americans turn to print for more lucid, complete reportage was only partly satisfactory
LOST DISCOVERIES by Colin Ronan. 125 pages. McGraw-Hill. $10.95. Lively, lucid and well illustrated, this book describes scientific discoveries made by ancient civilizations that were later temporarily "lost"-from neglect, or simply because they were too far ahead of their time. The list is impressive and long...