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...Final Days, Woodward & Bernstein...
...offstage. Yet her ordeal was obviously great as her husband, in the twilight of his presidency, lied to the public-and apparently even to his family-about the Watergate cover-up and was forced out of office. Most humiliating in more recent days was the Bob Woodward-Carl Bernstein description of a cold Nixon marriage, her consideration of divorce in 1962, her seeking solace in drink during those Final Days in the White House. Her feelings about such reports have not been revealed. "She always keeps her hurts and disappointments to herself," explains one of her closest friends...
...Final Days, Woodward & Bernstein...
...WOLFE IS BACK--in this month's issue of Harper's, with a piece on the phony radicalism of the American intellectual. It's too bad, because when he was on the same case a few years back, with a tremendously telling satire of Leonard Bernstein's party for the Black Panthers, Wolfe convinced everyone that Lennie and his East Side pals were counterfeit radicals and really, assholes. Now that Wolfe writes from his own vantage point, purely, without the benefit of foils like those partygoers, he comes off as a strangely fashionable reactionary and, why mince words?, an asshole...
Only one thing remains from earlier efforts like "The Painted Word" and the Bernstein piece and book: Wolfe's style is still o.k., best when he's deflating small pretensions, like the lecture-circuit crowd and the feel of universities where the biggest issue is too few parking spaces. Similarly, his story of a 1965 debate at Princeton on "the style of the Sixties" paints a picture of Ivy League elitism and the worthlessness of that burnt-out dope, Paul Krassner, in the old style. Wolfe's former tone was something akin to deflating everyone's act: all the world...