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...used his private détente with Agnew to stay abreast of Administration thinking. (Henry Kissinger and Melvin Laird have also "kept in touch," Reston says.) Agnew, in turn, has benefited from rather gentle treatment in Reston's influential column. Last February, for instance, Reston quoted approvingly a remark Agnew made in a speech before the Minnesota Press Association: "The fact is that the Nixon Administration is no more desirous of, nor more capable of, curtailing freedom of the press in America than any of its predecessors." Reston passed over the statement, writing only that "more things could...
...until she got married; the wedding was last June, unless it was called off. She wasn't terribly bright -- someone once told her to go to hell, as I recall, and she came right back with "Why don't you?" evidently convinced it was a crushing, witty, and original remark. And it only dawned on her toward the end of the summer that I probably lived in a dormitory. It was her envy at the discovery that surprised me, though I guess it shouldn't have: On her vacation she was planning a trip with her fiance, with her mother...
Buchanan's remark about the Institute came during his testimony before the Senate Watergate committee Wednesday afternoon. Under questioning by Senator Edward Gurney (R-Fla.), Buchanan said that the Ford Foundation, the Institute of Politics and the Brookings Institute, among others, exemplify the politically liberal foundations that he suggested are the principle beneficiaries of foundations' current tax-exempt status...
...While I agreed, as you quoted me in your article "Concert Not-So-Grands," that it is hard to find the technicians and materials of days gone by for the building of fine pianos, or anything else for that matter, I went on unhesitatingly to remark that...
...Cutting directly into color," Matisse wrote in 1947, "reminds me of a sculptor's carving into stone." Kelly's work, both as painter and as sculptor, now seems like a reverberation of that remark: the colors he uses- red, green, yellow, blue, plus black and white - are more object than atmosphere. Their presence is dense, their shape irrevocable. This, coupled with the extreme deliberation with which he shaves his contours, makes for very responsible painting. The weight of each decision, every nick and turn of shape, comes to resemble a moral choice. And so Kelly comes...