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John Ehrlichman, 45, looks as approachable as a Junior Chamber of Commerce booster. His face settles quite naturally into a smile, while his waistline suggests a temporary breakdown in an otherwise vigorous selfdiscipline. Though he neither drinks nor smokes, Ehrlichman and his wife are fond of throwing family barbecues at...
Braden ends up, like John Gardner, with unfashionable expressions of hope, quoting the German theologian Jiirgen Moltmann's The Theology of Hope. If the present looks grim, well, maybe−just maybe−there's the future. He settles for the progressive slogan, "Say no to the given...
Max Archer, the narrator-hero of the story section, is-like Wheelis himself -a San Francisco psychoanalyst. Fortyish and divorced, Archer regularly sees his patients, consults with his colleagues, plays a little chess and a lot of women. He is a man of few illusions who expects little and usually...
The exhibition itself reinforces this feeling of distance from the twentieth century by having so many pieces of actual furniture and whole rooms where you can stick your head over the rail into nineteenth century atmosphere. The material presence of the decoration-the glass, the silk, the gold knick-knacks...
"The flight from understanding blocks the insights that concrete situations demand. There follow unintelligent policies and inept courses of action. The situation deteriorates to demand still further insights, and, as they are blocked, policies become more unintelligent and action more inept. What is worse, the deteriorating situation seems to provide...