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Wrong notes intrude; unlike almost all modern artists, he neither practiced be fore the sessions ("Practicing is tedious anathema to me") nor redubbed passages to smooth out errors. In a final heresy, he embraces sentimentality, the witch word of the 20th century. "The more gushing, the better," he proclaims...
...Memoirs, which became available to TIME last week and will go on sale in bookstores next week, contribute relatively little that is new to his Watergate story. But anyone who is interested in international politics will find in his 1,120-page volume a mountain of both intriguing and tedious personal detail on Nixon's pursuit of detente with Soviet leaders, his opening of diplomatic relations with Communist China, and his ending the U.S. involvement in Viet...
...book covers other matters, of course, and according to some of the few people who have read it, often at tedious length. Memoirs starts with the sentence, "I was born in the house my father built," and devotes nearly a third of its pages to Nixon's years before he achieved the presidency in 1968. Roughly another third concentrates on foreign policy, while a final third covers the Watergate scandal. The best parts apparently deal with Nixon's historic overture to China, containing some highly personal assessments of Chairman Mao and Chou Enlai. Nixon, claims Editor Markell...
Contemporary western society, as does the Prime Minister of Quebec, divides activity into two separate components--work activity and voluntary activity. Work activity in our society tends to be simple, tedious and forced, and is therefore widely regarded as unpleasant and uncreative. Voluntary activities, however, whether sportive or intellectual, are generally regarded as pleasurable and creative. These latter activities, unforced and left to the choice of the individual, are ordinarily the only activities definitely designated as cultural...
...THIS DUALISM within activity, a dualism between the forced and the unforced, the tedious and the creative, the unpleasant and the enjoyable, is an artificial one. It is a consequence of the development of a system of highly differentiated labor found only in modern western societies. In fact, all activity can be an enjoyable expression of human creativity, and all activity can develop and increase the range of that creativity. The dichotomy between the eight hours of the day we spend working, and the following hours we spend recuperating and pursuing our own inclinations, must itself be challenged if culture...