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Politics of Harmony. Paradoxically, the war provides a supreme illustration both of the powers at Johnson's command and the limitations of their exercise. Before Viet Nam took center stage, Cornell's Rossiter predicted that Johnson "would rank with what we call the first-class second-class Presidents, and perhaps with a big effort, even rise above that." Now he says: "This war has damaged Lyndon Johnson's place in history. It has divided the country, and that has cost him his power base. I bet he wakes up in the morning sometimes and wonders what happened...
Most of the excitement in this year's Davis Cup challenge round came after the last match had been played. Led by John Newcombe, 23, the world's top-ranked amateur tennis player, Australia overpowered Spain to win the cup for the 15th time in the past 18 years. Immediately afterward, though, Newcombe and Teammates Tony Roche, 22, and Roy Emerson, 31, announced that they are turning pro-leaving the Aussies without a single player of world rank to defend the cup next year...
...Francisco Artist Bruce Conner paints and pastes together his caustic collages and assemblages from all manner of thrift-shop odds and ends. When they were shown at the Museum of Modern Art's "Art of Assemblage" in 1961, William Seitz, the show's organizer, was sufficiently impressed to rank Conner on a par with Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. Yet, while the latter two have gone on to Venicelebrity and $20,000 canvases, Conner, at 34, remains mainly an underground hero, known to the world at large only for his fine experimental films...
...command of movement, in variety of expression, Taylor's company of eleven dancers has moved steadily into the top rank of America's smaller dance groups. Like most of them, its appeal is special, its audiences are small and its financial problems great. But, in the unmistakable flowering of interest in ballet that is currently sweeping across the U.S., Taylor's choreographic synthesis may very well help bring modern dance, no less than ballet, into the affections of American audiences...
...carousing in the Caucasus, he wrote Story of My Childhood-which was instantly accepted for publication and drew praise from Turgenev and Dostoevsky. Later, in the Crimea, Tolstoy served bravely as an artillery officer and wrote Sevastopol Sketches, which, in their fidelity to the sweep and detail of battle, rank as some of the best war correspondence of all time. The very flaws and inconsistencies that he displayed during those years would, as Troyat notes, "later enable him to embrace the attitudes of each of his characters in turn with equal sincerity." Indeed, contradiction was a pattern that grew...