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...second side comprises a set of older songs, the most interesting of which is a rendition of "Frankie and Johnny," a chance for Doc, Merle, Vassar Clements, and dobro player Norman Blake to show off on brief solos. Again, in this set, the punctuation of the music with brief bursts from Clement's fiddle or from Doc's harmonica is often enough to make simple music interesting. The rest of the songs, though bright, energetic, and pleasant to listen to are less invigorating; they are so standard that they elicit no subtle vocal interpretation...
Reductions. Despite their remarkable accomplishments, the Jesuits were suppressed in 1773 by Pope Clement XIV, and the order was disbanded for 41 years. The suppression grew out of a convergence of hatreds. The anticlerical freethinkers of the Enlightenment detested the Jesuits. So did Jansenist Catholics, who adhered to a puritanical view of man's depravity. Their most articulate spokesman was Blaise Pascal, who, in his eloquently satirical Provincial Letters, accused the Jesuits of abetting the decay of Christianity by their lax moral and ascetic teachings. Their papal loyalty, furthermore, infuriated believers in the new nationalism. A magnanimous missionary project...
Fourth Circuit Chief Judge Clement Haynsworth, one of Nixon's aborted Supreme Court Justices, ruled that funds for the operation of a campus newspaper cannot be cut off solely because college officials disagree with the newspaper's editorial opinions. The wording was exceedingly plain: "[College administrators] can't withhold funds just because they don't like what a campus paper prints...
...James's, contributed $254,000; Mrs. George Farkas, wife of the founder of Alexander's department store, and ambassador-designate to Luxembourg, anted up $300,000 ($200,000 of it after Nixon was safely re-elected). Even in Washington, however, money is not everything. Insurance Magnate W. Clement Stone, for instance, kicked in $1,000,000 last year-along with several hints that he would like the London post-but he is still biding his time in Chicago...
Ordeal. The congressional rebuff of Gray marked the biggest personal setback for President Nixon since the rejection of his appointments of Clement F. Haynsworth Jr. and G. Harrold Carswell to the Supreme Court. Nixon said that Gray had been the victim of "totally unfair innuendo and suspicion," and defended both the White House's request to see the FBI files on the Watergate case ("completely proper and necessary") and Gray's compliance. But White House rationalizations notwithstanding, Congress seemed determined to diminish partisan influence in the FBI in the future...