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PERHAPS A NEW MYTHOLOGY is in the breeding around and about the Midwest, a kind of metaphorical setting that catches America and chokes up a seed which somehow holds a whole country. They say that there is a place in Missouri somewhere, where you can stand looking west and know that there is nothing but solid unbroken wheat for a thousand miles. These fields are sparsely but evenly inhabited, just as they are among the corn to the north. Richard Nixon was one of the first to point out something special about the people here--that they are silent. Other...
...Weininger discovered that his patient felt humiliated and had told no one about being deserted. "I told him it was the secret that was killing him, not the loss of his wife." By not informing others, Weininger explained, he was depriving himself of their support. "I planted a seed in his mind and opened it to other possibilities. He thanked me, paid a nickel and walked away...
...lodges, a restaurant and a couple of stores waited for customers, but there was no snow. Seibert hired an Indian snow dancer and lo, it snowed. In later years, whenever there was little snow, he fired old railway flares packed with silver iodide into the clouds to seed them. "My three kids thought I was crazy," says Seibert, "but when it's not snowing you do almost anything...
...NCAA soccer pairings released yesterday for the New England division of the national tournament, Harvard, ranked number one, is slated to face the University of Rhode Island, the fourth seed, in the first round Monday in Cambridge. In the other first round match for New England, second-slated Brown faces the University of Connecticut, rated third, in Providence on Monday. The winners move on to the New England finals and the champion advances to meet the New York region victor...
...been spilt this past decade on the question of who was or was not a "first-generation" Abstract Expressionist. Since America is apt to regard its artists as either seed bulls or vicarious aristocrats, the squabbles over lineage tend to be obsessive. But the historicist view of priorities has its shallows. Several fine painters who came to maturity in the 1950s have been blurred by the filter of Who Did What First...