Word: personals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EUGENE McCARTHY'S approach to Presidential politics was startling in conception, magical in impact, darkly unpredictable in outcome. In person and on television, McCarthy's square features, rugged voice and slightly receding hairline spelled nothing so well as "President." And while the country hasn't actually had this image in the White House since Franklin Roosevelt, Americans still know it when they see it. It gives them pause, which in McCarthy's case was half the battle: once listened to, his message came across with unmistakable intelligence, groping caution and unimpeachable patriotism...
These fellowships, Fleming says, "mean that a person in American history has another opportunity to do research; and there aren't really many opportunities like...
CHOPIN: THE NOCTURNES (RCA Victor; 2 LPs). German Poet Heinrich Heine once wrote about Chopin that his "fame is aristocratic, it is perfumed with the approval of good society, it is as distinguished as his person." The same might be said of Artur Rubinstein, Chopin's fellow Pole. Taking the long-lined melodies of the 19 night pieces, Rubinstein floats them on their shifting chromatic undercurrents in a most elegant and assured manner, never falling into sentimentality...
...sell is generally softer or more tangential, the product is illustrated, and the salesman is anonymous and generally invisible. "You're not paying for the name," explains Chandler Warren, talent-booking boss for the Young & Rubicam ad agency. "You're paying for the quality that a person brings to the commercial...
...bits of dialogue don't untangle the plot or deepen the characters. After all, the vocabulary of the subconscious does not use any known alphabet, although one suspects that music is our best approximation. No, this dialogue merely suggests the too easily forgotten gap between what a person says and what he is. Nothing Anastasia could say would do credit to her presence; thankfully, she says nothing. She is addressed once, but the response comes from a brazen woman with several millions and the freedom of socialites in her honey-raucous voice. Clearly the voice does not belong to Anastasia...