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...Ross and lona Woodside last week were listening not only to the alarums of Gerald Ford on Indochina, but also to the first whispers of a tardy spring. It was clear that spring was more welcome. It will soon green the patch of Iowa prairie where they have lived and farmed for 64 years, bring the wild flowers to their slope of black soil with a quiet excitement that will dwarf Ford's perplexing insistence on more war in Southeast Asia...
...density, a thickness of imagined substance, that is quite old-masterly. The flesh is loose, but it is all structure too; and when the form beneath it slides away, obliterated by a wipe of the rag, Bacon can instantly tighten the image back with one detail - an eye, a patch of spiky hair like hedgehog quills. To a degree few other painters can rival, Bacon convinces you that every stroke and drip counts, that they carry a weight of ethical decision, so that representation is not a matter of filling-in but rather a continual reinvention of the motif...
Burgess might have risked one more quote from Hopkins. Man, one poem said, "This Jack, joke, poor potsherd/ Patch, matchwood, immortal diamond/ Is immortal diamond." Otherwise, what's so wrong with sun-kissed clockwork oranges? ∙Timothy Foote
...from $6 to $6.44 an hour, first-class machinists who got $3.50 last summer are getting $5.65 an hour, while stenographers have jumped from $400 to $705 a month. Lynda Armstrong, 31, abandoned her ambition to be a nightclub singer to earn $1,000 a month as an oil-patch roustabout. "I'm no women's libber," she says. "I just want to do it if I can and let them...
...last year. Even those with money are often forced to leave for lack of a home, and Odessa churches and citizens have bought dozens of bus tickets for the destitute. Housing is somewhat more plentiful in Midland but is far too expensive -and distant-for the average oil-patch laborer. "Midland is a good place to raise children," goes the local saying, "Odessa is a good place to raise hell...