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Some students said they chose Carter over Ford as the lesser of two evils. "I voted for Carter, not because I think much of him as a candidate," Nina Drayton '79 said last night. Carter was preferable to Ford in the White House, she said...
America's sense of isolation and distance, and the effort needed to overcome it, is the theme of two delightful shows that opened last week at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. One, "Paintings by New England Provincial Artists, 1775-1800," organized by Art Historian Nina Fletcher Little, illustrates the limner tradition with 76 paintings by 34 artists, backed up with domestic objects of the sort that appears in those stiff, poignant effigies-chairs, painted floorcloths, a child's coral-garnished silver whistle. The other show, "Copley, Stuart, West," deals with the first three American-born painters...
...doubles matches proved equally strenuous. Kathy Fulton and Andy Okamura clicked for a 6-3, 6-3 thrashing of their adversaries and the freshman pair of Nina Cohen and Kathy Evans breezed...
Shortly after her divorce, Nina Vidal married Hugh D. Auchincloss, a wealthy broker and the squire of Merrywood, a handsome Virginia estate. Despite the trauma that this union occasioned, it gave Vidal two tenuous family connections that were to affect his career: Auchincloss's mother was Emma Brewster Jennings, a descendant of Aaron Burr; and, after he and Vidal's mother were divorced, Auchincloss married Mrs. Janet Bouvier, the mother of the future Jacqueline Kennedy...
Vidal's half sister, Mrs. Nina Straight, a Washington socialite, agrees that he has held something back from the world: "I don't think Gore wants people to know what a sterling character he is and how hard he works. He has not had a happy life, but he's never dwelt on it. He just put certain things aside and concentrated on the writing. I know it sounds Horatio Algeresque -he will vomit to think I'm putting him in that category. But it's true...