Word: burr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will be especially galling to those who hate and envy Gore Vidal to pick up Burr and discover that the gods of Julian the Apostate once again seem to have smiled broadly in his direction. Burr, a novel stretched tightly over the historical bones of Aaron Burr, could not have been published at a better time. There is scandal in the highest places. A constitutional storm is gathering in Washington, and interest in historical precedent is rising fast...
...student interest in old fashioned electoral politics. Dormitory-bound students are usually unaware of the real character of Cambridge life--the city extends over two miles in either direction from Harvard Square, while most of The Crimson's readership feels on alien turf if it ranges two blocks beyond Burr Hall to Rindge Tech High School. Harvard's consistent and unneighborly expansion policy has irrevocably altered neighborhood residence patterns and introduced student life into the areas below the Law School, around Radcliffe and in the direction of Peabody Terrace. But few of Cambridge's 80,000-plus residents (down from...
...turned out, little love has been lost over the years. Only rarely have the two officials been the best of friends. Fairly typical was Thomas Jefferson's description of his No. 2 man, Aaron Burr: "A crooked gun or other perverted instrument, whose aim or shot you could never be sure of." Or Hubert Humphrey's relations with his No. 1 man, Lyndon Johnson: "The only time I saw Johnson was when he ran out of people to chew on and raised hell with...
...should be an easy money-maker, CBS must have thought. I hope they're wrong. I hope the new show fails before it molds Perry Mason and his colleagues into forgettable characters. The Mason created in 1933 by Erle Stanley Gardner was a volatile, often unscrupulous lawyer-sleuth. Raymond Burr toned the man down, but added a dynamism of his own which made Mason the sort of fascinating static character best suited to an hour-long TV show. Monte Markham, though somewhat better in the second episode than in the first, appears to have whittled Mason down further without adding...