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...with the cultivation of a broader understanding. A worthy objective. However, the emphasis in such general exposures to other worlds has been on the study of records of perception instead of any investigations of the worlds themselves. Consequently the student may never catch sight of the problems of the realm in question as he wanders more and less lost in the maze of great names, books and categories...
Contrary to his expectations, Gordon reported that he found the proceedings a letdown. He judged the East Room of the White House "majestic beyond the realm of good taste." He had anticipated being dazzled by the nearness to power, but when the President was introduced "I stared hard at him and was surprised at my indifference. He radiated no emotion, no character, and looked just the way I'd always imagined...
General LeMay's woman's town includes some potent and highly motivated females. Elegant Widow Katharine Graham, 63, presides with couturiered cool and a few well-chosen four-letter words over a communications realm that includes the Washington Post, Newsweek and three TV stations. An invitation to dinner at her handsome Georgetown house is a prize second only to dinner at the White House, and her guest list is guaranteed to be more stimulating. At a party she threw to celebrate Columnist Joseph Alsop's 60th birthday, 140 guests sat down to dine under a tent two stories high...
Jorge Luis Borges has spent a lifetime trying to run away-with stunning success. In part it is the fixed writer of public renown that he fears and flees. Each of his tales represents an escape to some unexplored realm of the imagination. In the most recent stories in The Aleph, he has made still another escape: from intellectual labyrinths to the raw, stark world of the pampas...
...admit readily his own shortcomings. He will sit back and pout for a while, decide he was right all along, and blame any Republican setbacks on failure to present the message strongly enough. Such a typical five-year-old's reaction to setbacks is not out of the realm of possibility for our President. The man who tearfully blamed his 1962 defeat on the media can be expected to do the same in 1970. From him, we can expect increased attacks on the media, more attempts at Administration-imposed censorship, and tighter government secrecy. The next invasion of Cambodia...