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...account also revealed a relationship between husband and wife that perhaps few marriages can achieve or would require. At some level of living and begetting, presumably, they spoke in whispers. But at some other level-the children at boarding school, the investments divided-they exchanged memos. Fond memos. tender memos-but still memos-not dashed off, but surely edited. Putting the ultimate strain on public credulity, L.B.J. said that in May 1964 he had painfully committed to paper what he had told some close friends: "The times require leadership and a voice. I have learned after trying very hard that...
...icons, barbaric gemstones strewn across the velvet sophistications of Orthodox theology. Brussels: three Bruegels newly cleaned to support a reflective commemoration. Amsterdam: 24 matchless Rembrandts, the best from each of 21 collections the world round. Paris: 304 Giacomettis, shyly revealing beneath surfaces textured like used chewing gum, a tender-hearted portraitist...
...SCENT OF FLOWERS takes a girl on a semipoetic, semiprosaic long day's journey into the night of her suicide. Katharine Houghton gives a tender, well-wrought performance that has beauty and intensity...
...thought of Rocthke; he read about the creative necessity of solitude and I thought of Bly-yet all the while I knew it was none of these, no simple influence. It was less a question of poetry than of a way of looking at things, of being tender, direct and sympathetic, of being able to lose yourself, to become and feel the way a bear, a porcupine or an unborn baby must...
...today's students really against the old American notion that colleges must act in loco parentis? In some ways, the young seem to be asking for even more tender, loving care. At Stanford University, President Kenneth Pitzer is now pondering whether his school should take over yet another function-dispensing the Pill to unmarried women students under as well as over...