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Kurland, a distinguished author (Politics, the Constitution, and the Warren Court) and a consultant to the Ervin committee, will focus on the questions of separation of powers, Executive privilege and impeachment. He sees the crisis as the "apex of the transfer of power away from our elected representatives to the Executive Branch of Government." When asked if his course would be taped, Kurland said...
...Harlem's Apollo Theater to Carnegie and Philharmonic Halls to the Hudson River boat rides on the Staten Island Ferry, the festival covered the city. Because of its magnitude and dimension, the phenomenon can not be wholly comprehended or fully interpreted. Despite the fact that jazz reached its apex in the forties and fifties and appears anachronistic to some, the Newport Jazz Festival remains one of the most significant annual cultural and musical events in the country...
...constructed with styrofoam pontoons on the ends of six arched wooden legs. At the apex, five feet above water, was a platform for the crew to row from. Launching difficulties caused a severe fracture of one leg, which was quickly repaired...
George Ward Byers plays Leonard Charteris, the male apex of the play's triangle, with energy. Caught between two women--an unwanted one who pursues him unrelentingly and a beloved one who affectionately refuses him -- and their bewildered fathers, Byers gracefully prances around the stage sporting engaging facial expressions. But he dandifies his role to the point where it is difficult to understand what the two women could see in him. Lorna Koski, as the woman scorned, strikes the most discordant note in the play. Unsuccessful at portraying Julia's passionate melodramatics, Koski appears to have lost not her decorum...
...true sorcerer or bust. "Power takes care of you," he says, "and you don't know how. Now I'm at the edge, and I have to change my whole format. Writing to get my Ph.D. was my ac complishment, my sorcery, and now I am at the apex of a cycle that includes the notoriety. But this is the last thing I will ever write about Don Juan. Now I am going to be a sorcerer for sure. Only my death could stop that." It is a ro mantic role, this anthropological ges ture across a pit of entities...