As expected, participants reported
lower opinions of both the
man with sexist attitudes and the
man with racist attitudes compared with the
man who had a neutral profile.
Maybe it's because I've been writing about Magritte — my April Loose Ends column is about his and Georges Braque's overlapping concerns and wildly different visions — but reading Nixon speechwriter Raymond K. Price's 1967 prescription for how to elevate voters»
low opinions of the candidate, all I could think
of was Magritte, the ad
man, and the insights on representation he brought to his art, as explored in the Menil Collection exhibition Magritte: The Mystery
of the Ordinary, 1926 - 1938.