Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Richard Nixon, who is above all a methodical craftsman, addressed himself to stretching and sizing his canvas before attempting to paint big answers for public view (although he did schedule his first formal press conference for this week). In their early days at least, most administrations are judged more by their style than their programs, which are generally embryonic at this stage. Nixon and his men so far convey an earnest, deliberate, unspectacular approach. The President's inaugural address clearly reflected this attitude: "As we measure what can be done, we shall promise only what we know...
Comparing color schemes, peering into closets, peeking at the view from every room, the Richard Nixons looked like any other householders casing the premises. With a difference. The Nixons' dreamhouse really is one. It comprises 132 rooms-"big enough for two emperors, one pope and the grand lama," as Thomas Jefferson observed-offers every convenience from a heated swimming pool to greenhouses and painless gardens, on 18 pristine acres of priceless downtown D.C. real estate. And it evokes some of the richest moments of American history. It may take some getting used...
Duplicate Martyrdom. What caused that view to change was a feeling, even in the government, that Palach's death had to be taken as a serious political protest. While President Ludvik Svoboda pleaded against the repetition of "this horrible deed," he declared sympathetically on television that, "as a soldier, I am able to assess the self-denial and the personal courage of Jan Palach." Student and some union leaders quickly moved to channel the nation's horror and sympathy for Palach into full-scale political protest. First in Prague and then in other cities, they staged memorial marches...
...Review, Wills produced accounts that were as perceptive-and, at their best, as evocatively written-as Norman Mailer's. He is not mainly a narrative writer; his stories are propelled by his analytical insights. He can pinpoint the perspectives of a society, such as the South's view of the Rev. Martin Luther King: He was "an Uncle Ben with a degree, a Bill Bailey who came home-and turned the home upside down. In him, they saw their niggers turning a calm new face of power on them." He described...
Merle Fainsod, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor, was appointed by Ford to chair the convocation. He said yesterday that the tentative procedure is to start with a panel where each of the four members would present his point of view...