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Subpoena. The idea of executive privilege for Flanigan particularly angered North Carolina's Ervin, the Senate's reigning constitutionalist, who called the White House claim "absurd." Noncommittal until then on the Kleindienst confirmation, Ervin made it plain that he would not vote to confirm until Flanigan appears before the committee. "If the President wants to make his nominee for Attorney General the sacrificial lamb on the altar of executive privilege," he rumbled ominously, "that will be his responsibility and not mine...
Solzhenitsyn, whose patriotism is perfectly apparent in his writings, apparently decided to counter these absurd charges by calling worldwide attention to the slanderous campaign against him. He candidly told the American newsmen that "times have changed. They can't abuse people any more without its becoming known." That was an obvious reference to the growth of informed Russian public opinion through the circulation of samizdat (literally, self-publishing) news letters and broadcasts by Radio Liberty and other foreign stations. Solzhenitsyn said he was jotting down the most striking charges against him and the names of his detractors. "Perhaps...
Like many novels about growing up absurd, Geronimo Rex is both a romantic retreat and a sharp, satirical attack on convention. It is the story of young Harriman Monroe, who lives in Dream of Pines, La., a little bit of Southern heaven stripped of its timber by a few paper companies. It is a place where old mules and dogs can park themselves in a House Beautiful driveway to die, and where the black principal of a segregated school turns out the greatest high school marching band in the nation. At 22 Harriman is a seasoned eccentric-ex-trumpet prodigy...
...having to submit to the half-baked ideologies of ambitious musicians everytime you want to boogie. Power to the Working Class will provide a good musical blast of hard-nosed leftist sentiments. The idea of radical rock and roll has been haunting the music world since well before the absurd revolutionary posturings of the Jefferson Airplane, and parts of this album are good enough to make one really wonder why the Townsends and McCartneys have been tolerated for so long...
...period. "Detail is important," says Soloveitchik. "Ethics pays attenion to detail. Some people call us pe dantic; perhaps we are. But if you pay attention to detail you cannot be misled." Soloveitchik acknowledges that Orthodox belief is not always easy to understand: "We don't believe because it is absurd, but sometimes in spite of the fact it is absurd...