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...President was sketchiest in broad-brushing his goals in foreign policy, but he inspired the biggest ovation with a strong pitch for the embattled Panama Canal treaties. Carter broke from his text to declare with a grin: "I have to say that that's very welcome applause...
...rough, schematic set of plans and elevations that showed a flowering of concrete shells, like sails or beaks, rising to a height of more than 200 ft. above a horizontal podium. There was only the sketchiest indication of function. The architect, an almost unknown 38-year-old Dane named Jørn Utzon, had worked none of that out; he did not, as he later remarked, expect to win. Utzon's victory, it is believed, was largely due to one of the judges, the late Eero Saarinen, whose own fondness for shell construction had been embodied a year before...
...many respects a disappointment. Viewers waited to be told how much their paychecks would be permitted to rise over the next year or so. They never heard. Nixon unveiled a Rube Goldberg administrative mechanism, including a new Pay Board and a Price Commission?and he gave only the sketchiest outline of all that (see following story). The President read letters from self-sacrificing citizens who applauded the wage-price freeze even though it had deprived them of raises, appealed for similar patriotism in the marketplace in the months ahead, and promised that 1972 could be not just a "very good...
...wage-price freeze is only a prologue to a drama that so far has the sketchiest of script outlines. Like an exceptionally thunderous overture, Phase I has startled an audience of some 200 million citizens into rapt attention, and set the mood for the performance to follow. Has it been the beginning of a Nixonian New Prosperity? Or of a rerun of the national tragedy of inflation and unemployment? That will depend on the program that the White House shapes for Phase II, which follows the end of the freeze...
...whose work may well contain more lessons about epic scale than any other living American's. But his achievement has until lately been strangely muffled. He has never written a public statement about art. His work is hard to find; museums until now have given it only the sketchiest support. Nowhere in New York can one find a large sculpture by Di Suvero on public view. But next spring, Holland's Stedelijk Museum and the Duisburg Museum in Germany will jointly sponsor a show of four or five of his enormous steel constructions. The Whitney Museum plans...