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...TIME's Man of the Year. His response: "Oh really? I hadn't given any consideration to that." At the time, Carter's mind was preoccupied with selection of his Cabinet. Much of his deliberation took place in his study, overlooked by a framed portrait that ran on the cover of TIME in May 1971-a cover that first focused national attention on the then Governor of Georgia...
...home on St. Barthélemy Island in the Caribbean. There would be a fitting punishment for the diplomatic press once Cyrus Vance took office: "The only shuttle you guys will take from now on is between New York and Washington." Asked who would paint his official portrait, which will be displayed at the State Department, Kissinger replied with a grin: "I can pick the artist, but Vance can pick the corridor...
More than any other nation, the image America projects to us of itself conforms in diverse ways with our own, much smaller self-portrait. What we see is a country that graduated through the same school of ideas...
Here is Darwin's searing still-life portrait of Bobby Jones playing out the eighteenth hole of St. Andrews...
...UNICORN TAPESTRIES by Margaret B. Freeman. 244 pages. The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Dutton. $45. The seven magnificent tapestries depicting the hunt of the unicorn (on permanent display at the Cloisters in Manhattan) dazzle the eye. Woven into the tapestries' more than 1,000 sq. ft. is a graphic portrait of the medieval mind, frozen at a time (circa 1500) when thought was beginning to shift from heaven to earth. Thus while the tapestries tell the story of a bridegroom brought to the altar and of the death and resurrection of Christ, they also show the realistic hunt...