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...harass those on his "enemies lists," his illegal wiretapping of so-called security risks, his vast underpayment of income taxes. Yet his bitterness erupts at times as he lacerates the Washington Post and its Watergate reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, as well as lawyers on the Watergate special prosecutor's staff...
...home, where a small 'house party' of friends may feel wholly at ease," and she ran it in that Jamesian way until 1969, keeping Yaddo short on rules (no visitors from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.) and long on big-name residents. They included James Baldwin, Leonard Bernstein, Edward Hopper, Louis Kronenberger, Carson McCullers and Clyfford Still. John Cheever, another visitor, credited Mrs. Ames with a "softly imperious" ability to keep Yaddo running smoothly, though faced with "a zoo of cranky artists...
After Witke had completed her manuscript, Correspondent Richard Bernstein, our China watcher in Hong Kong, flew to New York to read the galleys, select the most revealing excerpts for TIME and write an introduction. Bernstein was especially fascinated by the book's "prolonged glimpse into the kind of privilege enjoyed by Peking's leadership, even as they extol the virtues of egalitarianism...
...Bernstein was assisted by Reporter-Researcher Heyden White, daughter of Theodore White, TIME'S correspondent in China from 1939 to 1945, and co-author of Thunder Out of China (1946), a prescient report on the eventual Communist takeover. Heyden White, who grew up hearing about China from her father, was enthralled by Witke's insights: "We can now learn Chiang Ch'ing's own version of what was happening during those turbulent times...
...Evening of Bernstein--Radcliffe Grant-in-Aid's spring production features a musical revue of greatest hits by Leonard Bernstein, plus an opera in one act. "Trouble in Tahiti". Also running Friday and Saturday. Agassiz Theater...