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Carter is an almost compulsive believer in such self-improvement. He has been studying the White House works of art. In February he asked White House Curator Clem Conger for historical details about all the objects in the Oval Office, which include an 18th century portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, a Frederic Remington bronze, Broncho Buster (circa 1901), and the only known replica of Charles Willson Peale's portrait of George Washington, which is currently valued at $400,-000 to $600,000. Carter recently stunned the curator of Washington's Corcoran Gallery of Art with...
Nixon vs. Nixon has won praise, particularly from those involved in similar work. It is "a good, sound portrait," says Lloyd deMause, editor of the four-year-old Journal of Psychohistory. Duke's Barber thinks that Abrahamsen has shown "how far psychoanalytic interpretations can help in understanding" Nixon...
...grand anecdotes are made, and Corry makes the most of his material. At the drop of a shilleleagh, he can spin off a neat character sketch that will leave all who have ever seen a Barry Fitzgerald movie shaking their heads in recognition. Perhaps the most striking is his portrait of Tom Murray, the staunch champion of Catholicism who insisted that each daughter and her beau say an entire rosary before embarking on an evening's date...
...with a subject which is controversial enough when dealt with honestly and factually. When, in the last chapter, Dawkins finally acknowledges that humans can "rebel" against their "selfish" genes, he fails to erase the overwhelming implications of the preceding ten chapters, and the result is a biased and inaccurate portrait of human life...
...against anything which is forced upon human beings, including Communism or Bolshevism." Hiding behind age and deafness, he stopped just short of admitting that he was Traven, Torsvan or Marut. Deference and fear that Groves might cut off the interviews apparently kept Stone from pressing hard for answers. The portrait drawn from such material is lively, affectionate and, inevitably, less than satisfying...