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...split-level decision, the nation's loftiest heroes got the wall-to-wall carpeting pulled out from under them. A week after the seven U.S. astronauts received tacit NASA consent to accept fully furnished, $24,000 houses as a gift from the Houston Home Builders Association, Pathfinder John Glenn showed up in Washington for what was rumored to be White House-inspired reconsideration. The result: an announcement that the astronauts will pass up the gift houses out of a somewhat belated recognition that misunderstanding of their motives "would undercut the stature of the astronauts and of the space program...
Fear & Firmness. Fact is that press criticism of the President has never been a sometime thing. It is one of the persistent realities of life in the loftiest and most vulnerable public office. In recent weeks, others besides Joe Alsop have indeed accused the President of wavering, indecision, and of failing to deliver on the glittering promise of strong leadership that surrounded the figure of Jack Kennedy early in office...
...Bernard P. Gallagher, a Manhattan magazine broker, prints the Gallagher Report, a medley of information and misinformation on magazine publishing that claims 5,500 subscribers at $12 a year. Aviation Daily, which is airmailed (naturally) to 75% of its subscribers, manages an 80% renewal rate despite one of the loftiest price tags in the profession: $220 a year. Recently, Arun Kumar Chhabra came to the U.S. from India, started a newsletter, India View, that is addressed primarily to readers of Indian extraction. There are newsletters for insurance companies (The Washington Insurance Newsletter), space businessmen (Space Business Daily), medical institutions...
...appeared, is now gaining a second life through the continuing Lolita boom. But Laughter in the Dark only superficially resembles Lolita; it is closer to the Heinrich Mann novel that became The Blue Angel, the famed Marlene Dietrich film of the same general setting and period. At its loftiest, Nabokov's theme is the degradation, by lust, of dignity and intellect-Shakespeare's "expense of spirit in a waste of shame...
Human & Divine. The Eastern gods were dark, ponderous, absolute. The Greeks challenged this authoritarianism with the restless spirit of inquiry. Against the hierarchy of the absolute, they set up "the prestige of the imaginary"-man's loftiest ideals fashioned in art. "The sacred was replaced by the sublime, the supernatural by the wondrous, and Fate itself by tragedy." Critics who believe that Greek sculptors were trying to achieve representational realism earn Malraux's ire. "Humanized but not human," a figure like the Winged Victory of Samothrace is no mere woman to Malraux, but an evocation of that "spark...