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Yet the after-image is not entirely ugly. For Charles Mee, 38, author (Meeting at Potsdam) and the former editor of Horizon magazine, the decade had a chaotic vitality and charm. His title implies a Watergate history, but the book is something quite different-an odd and lovely exercise that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The '60s Trip | 6/13/1977 | See Source »

Condon treats these complicated forces as if they all added up to the mechanism of a cuckoo clock. The characters pop in and out of beds and public favor with predictable but amusing regularity. Condon's style, which has seemed preachy and sodden in recent years, achieves some of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Royal Flush | 5/30/1977 | See Source »

Like planned parenthood and Daniel Berrigan, Harvard has never been very popular with Catholic America. There are a few who don't mind the great bastion of Eastern intellectualism--the kind of people who read Playboy and don't say so in confession, who snicker wickedly when the bishop belches...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Harvard as the path to damnation | 5/27/1977 | See Source »

I knew I had him now--I could have recited the Agnus Dei, Confiteor, Kyrie Elaison and the entire 23rd Psalm if he asked. My faith was like a rock, as the bishop always used to tell us it had to be, and I was even going to confession in...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Harvard as the path to damnation | 5/27/1977 | See Source »

Unfortunately, part of the drama of the closest thing to a confession that Nixon is ever likely to make was lost in the editing of the show. The 90-minute broadcast was distilled from almost five hours of grilling by Frost on Watergate. Nearly an hour of the taping that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEQUELS: Nixon: Once More, with Feeling | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

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