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...campaign regulations. But now and then there is a lament for the good old days, when nobody could tell the difference between Government and politics and nobody much cared. Then a man like Larry O'Brien, Special Assistant to the President of the U.S., went behind his oak door in the White House, rolled up his sleeves, got out his charts, lighted up his Marlboro and called up the country's resident professor of practical political theology, Richard Joseph Daley, mayor of Chicago. O'Brien might spend most of the day on such calls-maybe even most...
...here, Jimmy?" they asked as we strolled around the Yard. "How smart d'ya have to be?" They were my guests now, and I was almost embarrassed as we wound through the campus toward Quincy House, looking through windows at undergraduates sprawled on leather couches set against "real" oak panneling hung with oil portraits...
...concerned with her emotions to care about her looks and her face is tearful and puffy. But the rest of the characters, and all the scenery, is a catalogue of splendor. Truffaut's nineteenth century Halifax is magnificent inside and out, from the lichen-crusted castle battlements to the oak interiors of the houses and the cozy Victorian bookshop. The climax of the film--in Barbados--is more exotic, but here too the emphasis is on beauty, even when the camera moves in crowds of ragged African children and not in the bougainvillea-bedecked inner garden of the Governor-General...
...Dunster Street is a small lead frame with the stained glass image of a carrot and stick superimposed upon a square Crimson H. The office itself is a brown study of spartan furnshings and dusky bookishness. The start Harvard armchairs, the large and brooding rug, the huge oak-slab desk spattered with papers, the shelves of volumes bound in lusterless red--all bear the bloodless mark of a collection that has had to depend for its light on a tiny ration of western sun that filters past the Institute of Politics and through the great window. Finally, there...
Keith L. McCullough Royal Oak, Mich...