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...home movies, Heartland's professionalism results from the uniform excellence of its cast and the subtle, piercing eye of its camera, which catches lights and darks and poses like a latter-day Vermeer. As simple as corn pone and just as good, Heartland reveals America, the America of Whitman's poetry, the America of open spaces and open people...
...running for his second three-year term, had to seem like a shoo-in. There were, after all, only nine candidates in the race: Kissinger, former Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal, 55, Xerox Chairman C. Peter McColough, 58, Citibank Chairman Walter Wriston, 61, Economist Marina von Neumann Whitman, 46, Chicago Sun-Times Publisher James Hoge, 45, former State Department Official William Rogers, 54, Washington Post Columnist Philip Geyelin, 58, and former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, 64. But when the vote was announced last week-gasp -Kissinger was dead last. Said one council member: "It just stood...
Mann would have withheld his cool wrath from the Nazis in his letter to the University of Bonn. There would have been no greeting from Emerson to Whitman "at the beginning of a great career"no Groucho Marx to T.S. Eliot ("my best to you and your lovely wife, whoever she may be"). Had St. Paul decided to speak instead of write, the New Testament would have become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal...
...braggart, of course, has always been present on the American scene, and boasting has been tolerated when it hap pened to come from certain types - poets, entertainers, politicians - who were considered beyond the pale anyhow. It was all right for Walt Whitman to indulge his flagrant self-celebration ("I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious") because, as a poet, he was lost to gentility anyway...
Some avoided the paradox, supported by progressive parents who dispelled the notion that a woman had to choose between a career and motherhood. Marina von Neumann Whitman, for example, credits her family's unspoken "assumption that anyone with talent could succeed" with her ability to persevere despite the "conflicting signals" at Radcliffe. Radcliffe gave a wonderful intellectual freedom as well as the expectation that we automatically had to be mothers. This we either didn't notice or took for granted." says Whitman, who was recently named vice president and chief economist of the General Motors Corporation after being a protessor...