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Samples from the governor's notebook:
From the American Statistical Association committee, which has been fine-tooth-combing his research methods, Dr. Alfred C. (Sexual Behavior in the Human Male) Kinsey drew a nod tempered by a mild frown. Rating Kinsey's approach as "superior" to "other leading sex studies," the committee still had a...
The TV industry turned out a tidy little packet of advice to anxious-to-please politicians. To help "those in public life to present their views by television convincingly," the National Association of Radio & Television Broadcasters issued Campaigning on TV, an 18-page pamphlet studded with admonitory italics ("You will...
To prove the point, Marcus and a group of fellow Texans sifted through the work of scores of artists, settled on samples from 53 of them for a show in Manhattan last week. The 53 were as varied as Texas itself. If there was any pattern, it was an apparent...
When Poet George William Russell was a young man in Victorian Dublin, he wrote a philosophic article under the pseudonym "Æon." The printer mangled it, and Æon came out Æ. For the rest of his life, Russell wrote under that diphthong. Outdistanced as a poet by such contemporaries...