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...Johnson suffers, too, from a kind of generational gap that yawns wider every time Bobby Kennedy addresses a crowd. It is not simply a matter of age. As a kind of latter-day Andrew Jackson in an era that looks for a more patrician patina on its politicians, he strikes many as plain corny or simply crude. Last week, for example, while en route to Manila, the wife of an allied Prime Minister had just confided to her seat mate that she preferred bacon even to caviar when the President leaned over, speared one of her two rashers and devoured...
...direction, the foundation also spread its money on wider projects, ranging from a University of Michigan medical-research center and a building at M.I.T. to the little General Hospital in Monroe County, Pa., where Kresge died last week...
Eduard F. Sekler, Director of the Carpenter Center and head of the Visual Studies program said that the combined field would give the Arch Sci and Visual Studies departments a chance to coordinate their programs and offer a much wider selection of experimental and lower level courses. "We've always had more applications than we could handle," Sekler said last week. "Under Environmental Studies we could accommodate more students, and offer a much broader curriculum...
...through the finder of a 50mm lens --a two-inch lens -- you see the perspective as roughly normal, as the eye sees it. Now the moment you go to a 35mm lens, the perspective begins to change, to elongate. Then you go to a 28mm. In other words, the wider the angle of lens, the more forced the perspective becomes...
...does not really count. What counts is Warner's message, which he states and restates with a bald clarity of which Kafka, whom Warner admires and emulates, never felt the need. "I began to see," says Roy, "that this life, in spite of its drunkenness and inefficiency, was wider and deeper than the activity in which we were constricted by the iron compulsion of the air vice marshal's ambition, a life whose very vagueness concealed a wealth of opportunity, whose uncertainty called for adventure, a life whose unwieldiness was the consequence of its immensity...