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Even before Barry Goldwater became his party's nominee for President in 1964, conservatives revered and respected the Senator from Arizona as the titular head of the Republican right. So it came as a rude shock to many of the faithful when Goldwater last week lashed out at the religious zealots of the New Right, most notably represented by the Moral Majority...
...want to sound rude or anything, but please, Mr. Reagan, take your Pershings, neutron bombs and cruise missiles and get out of Germany! We are old enough to take care of ourselves. Tens of thousands of innocent people in Viet Nam, Chile and Nicaragua have already died in the name of freedom and liberty. We don't want to be next in line. I'm not anti-American or proSoviet. I'm simply a human being and I don't want to get nuked off this world by a friend...
...have turned out that way. In the intervening decade, there has been a riotous growth of deliberately clumsy, punkish figurative painting in America: paintings that ignore decorum or precision in the interest of a cunningly rude, expressionist-based diction. Quite clearly, Guston is godfather to this manner, and for this reason his work excites more interest among painters under 35 than that of any of his contemporaries. He would never have gained this following had he stayed abstract, and it is sadly ironic that he died last year, at age 66, shortly after the current retrospective opened in San Francisco...
...merely smiled and confided his frustrations to paper. His strongest language was reserved for the head of the U.S. Navy, Admiral Ernest King. "One thing that might help win this war is to get someone to shoot King," he wrote. "He's the antithesis of cooperation, a deliberately rude person, which means he's a mental bully...
...year ago. Unless the workers scale back their demands, there seems to be little chance for national recovery. "If this continues, those who applauded us in August 1980 will be throwing stones at us," Walesa admonished at a Solidarity meeting in Gdansk last week. That would be a rude awakening indeed from the dream of odnowa...