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...Nixon-Agnew fall campaign, by what it stressed and what it ignored, glazed the Administration with a more conservative patina than its actual policies warranted. The approach lost more than it gained. Further, the President goes into his second two years with most of his program still unrealized. Hence Richard Nixon the policymaker and administrator now has considerable causeand opportunityto edge back toward the middle...
Most pretentious of the new shows is The Senator, which will appear every third week on NBC's catchall The Bold Ones series. But except for an authoritative performance by Hal Holbrook and a patina of knowingness (terms like "Evans and Novak" popped up without explanation), the premiere was just another action show about an assassination plot...
...sculpture invites touching (and the standard museum rule is always "Don't touch"), the sighted were as eager as the blind to take advantage of this opportunity. In San Francisco, most of the show's 45,500 visitors could see, and after a few days, when the patina on the bronzes started wearing off, museum officials had to ask those with sight to refrain from touching. "There's a big difference between the way blind and sighted people touch things," said one museum official. "The hands of the blind come down gently and slowly, like butterflies, while...
Salty Flavor. The book, originally the idea of American Heritage President James Parton, took four years to produce. It is designed somewhat like the Petit Larousse, and has plenty of illustrations in the margins. An arcane glossary of Indo-European word roots lends it a patina of intellectuality, and a listing of almost all the outhouse and bawdyhouse four-letter verbs gives it a salty flavor. To comb out the neologisms and solecisms, the editors consulted a usage panel of 104 unpaid judges, mainly journalists and other writers. Among them: Russell Baker, Vermont Royster, Red Smith and Dwight Macdonald...
George Goethals told May in his letter, "What it means to be a liberally educated man, these days, is very different from what that term meant as short a time ago as 1965, when the Doty report was accepted." General Education today, he said, "still has about it the patina of the education of a gentleman...