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Rosalynn has handed out her 200 Polish-Pride coloring books to the kids of Warsaw and some jazz tapes to the city's hep older citizens. The Shah of Iran has been given his matched set of porcelain plates with splendid Winslow Homer paintings on them. There are books on Audubon and Thoreau yet to be distributed along the President's route; the Steuben prism that focuses its light on a golden eagle will be presented to King Khalid, an avid falconer, in Saudi Arabia...
...glance, Pharaon's soft features, barely disguised by a mustache and a tiny Vandyke, suggest that he is something of a sybarite. He travels by private jet, owns a chateau in France and once, rumor has it, dispatched a ship to Italy to pick up a pair of porcelain vases. Moreover, his tendency to leave many major decisions to others, combined with a rather offhand manner when discussing business and money, can sometimes leave the impression that he is a self-indulgent hobbyist rather than a hardened executive...
...misfit in the modern world. . "If I had my way, the glamour of kings and queens would come back," he says wistfully. "Life today can be pretty dull. People should run around in period costumes." Last month the blond, bearded graduate created a still-life puppet show, with twelve porcelain-headed puppets in full Victorian dress, in a gallery of the main building at Pratt. Perkins changed the puppets' positions each day and used cards to explain what was happening in his mini-Forsyte Saga. Perkins would like to tour the country in a gypsy wagon with...
...until his death from cancer on Maui in 1974, Lindbergh remained elusive, difficult. Far from being merely a sort of hayseed genius of mechanics, he was the son of a populist Republican Minnesota Congressman and a schoolteacher, whose father, Charles Land of Detroit, was a distinguished dentist who invented porcelain caps for teeth. Lindbergh had lived in Washington, D.C., and studied at the University of Wisconsin until he dropped out midway through his sophomore year to take a course in flying. At 25, he was tough, intelligent and probably the best pilot...
...that as far as race relations at Harvard go, there are precious few. Minorities and whites in the main don't see each other as individuals but as Representatives of a Position or Metaphors of the Moral Life. Whites undervalue minorities by considering them delicate pieces of psychic porcelain likely to shatter at the first sign of a Stereotype (cf. the Epps Decision) and thus to be beningly neglected; whites overvalue minorities by seeing them as the exemplars of ethical impulses (cf. the "Birth of a Nation" fracas of a few terms ago) that white society in its relativism...