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Magical Boats. Perhaps because of the knowing eye of J. Carter Brown, the National Gallery director who helped select the paintings, the show has interesting examples of artists who are almost too catalogued in the common memory. Take Guardi. The mind leaps to Venice's canals, but the show's Guardi is a fantastical landscape of writhing trees and magical boats. Boucher? Rather than playful nymphs and naked amoureuses, there are a phantasmagoric cottage and tower that the brothers Grimm might have imagined. And Ruisdael, that painter of flickering Dutch light, is represented by a picture...
...championed free enterprise and attacked Government regulation. He has urged continued heavy defense spending. He has rather cold-bloodedly neutralized the conservatives' hostility to Rockefeller by stressing the fact that the President and the Vice President are not a team and the G.O.P. delegates will be free to select the Vice President. Privately, Ford has no intention of dropping Rocky, who he keeps insisting is not really a liberal. He admires his Veep's abilities and needs him on the ticket to win independent and Democratic votes in the election...
...State Labor Relations Commission, in settling last week's strike, ordered the city and the union to submit the unresolved issues to binding arbitration and select the arbiter within 14 days...
Doctorow's mother was a pianist and his father owned a record and musical-instrument store in Manhattan's Hippodrome Theater building-components of Ragtime's vanished New York. After graduating from the select Bronx High School of Science, he studied literature at Kenyon College in Ohio. It was the kind of education that sharpened his critical faculties at the expense of his creative talents. "I had to purge myself of the sense of the writer as an intellect," he recalls. The purge has worked. Ragtime is free of the self-consciousness of form that mars most...
...examine top-level White House and National Security Council files. After studying the data, Church plans to call as witnesses such key figures of the Kennedy Administration as McGeorge Bundy, Walter Rostow and Robert McNamara. In addition, both Church's committee and the recently reorganized House Select Committee on Intelligence are interested in learning what control Secretary of State Henry Kissinger may have exercised over the CIA'S more recent clandestine operations abroad. "Before this thing is over," says one congressional source, "Kissinger may find himself right in the middle of the CIA controversy...