Word: reals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...results of Tuesday seem like an incidental off-shoot of real conflicts that the political system has not faced this year. President elect Nixon should read the vote not as a mandate so much as a warning. He will enter the White House with little personal prestige or popoular support, and without the Congressional support that he had expected. Therefore, if he is going to be able to govern, he will have to end the war quickly and not necessarily "honorably." And he will have to redirect this country's resources to its own disintergrating cities, and not necessarily with...
Before the evening's real business--attacks on anarchists and open housing--we met the candidate's families, posed awkwardly in domestic tableaus, not knowing what to do with their hands and faces for the few seconds the camera stopped on them...
...half-hour opens with Humphrey getting ready to a film a TV-speech, shifting position, worrying out loud whether he would look better behind a podium. Peek behind the scenes and there is a real Humphrey, the opening says, and the apparent frankness of what follows is indeed disarming...
Illinois was a real cliff-hanger. Humphrey took a strong lead with the Chicago-Cook County Democratic vote, but Nixon came on later with the downstate returns. When just over half the vote was in, Nixon moved into the lead to stay...
PORTRAITS of Saul Steinberg, William Faulkner, Giacometti (running to breakfast in the rain) show another facet of his genius. He gathers up wonderful details of his subjects' surroundings to capture them and attach them to a real world, rather than idealize and abstract them. The Faulkner picture sticks in my mind in such a way that whenever I think of him, I return to his face and thin body and yet also to the small lean dog who stretches behind...