Word: patinaed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...history and the resonance of those fragments are so strong that even out of chronological sequence they form their own associations, like a Joseph Cornell collage. Some of the colors may be psychedelic, but the shadings are the pastel of memory, the patina made of remembered melody. Lennon, the only wedded Beatle -he had married Cynthia in 1962 and had a son, Julian-had early been typed as the most restless, outspoken and creative of the group, even though he led, outwardly, the most settled life. There was paradox in this popular portrait, just as there was considerable tension...
...patina, however, has neither obscured nor answered the most troubling question about Reagan. Put starkly, that question is whether he is smart enough to be President. The U.S. has seldom demanded that its chief executive officers be intellectuals, of course. But clear-eyed realism, sensitive and discriminating judgment, a feel for power relationships, instinct born of at least a general knowledge of how the System works are all demanded in a President...
...like Frederick Douglass, the Motor City ghetto of his youth or such physical relics of slavery as the old factory he describes in his 1979 volume American Journal: "[In] the tidy ruins of a sugar mill./ More than cane was crushed. But I am tired today of history, its patina'd cliches of endless evil...
...someone of his station, with the future secure, it was enough (at Harvard) simply to acquire a socially acceptable patina of intellectualism, nor is there anything to indicate that his learning ever went much beyond this level...