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...furnish summaries of the desired conversations. The committee demands the tapes. The President declines again. The committee issues a subpoena for specific conversations. Nixon declines to honor the subpoena. The Ervin committee, by majority vote, cites the Secret Service officer who is now custodian of the tapes for contempt of Congress. Also, needing only a majority vote to do so, the full Senate confirms this citation...
...Nixon v the Ervin Committee," rather than turn matters into a three-way separation-of-powers brouhaha. That is, unless Ervin can make stick his contention that Congress has the same powers as a court in probing illegal White House activities, or unless he can force a criminal contempt-of-Congress charge to be brought...
...Washington forgave Prague." Says Critic George Steiner: "There is an absolute conviction that to overcome his terrible weakness Mr. Nixon sold everything to Brezhnev. It would never have happened in a confident White House." Or, as one British official told the New York Times's Anthony Lewis: "The contempt the Nixon Administration has shown for its own society inevitably raises questions about its attitude in foreign relations...
...discredulous age along the lines that his very strength lies in the fact that he does not exist. In other soliloquies, notably in one given by Abelard's Heloise in defense of the flesh and in another given by a student of sexual exorcism, Kolakowski indicts Christianity for its contempt of the body, and by implication, of this world. While this second section is not so successful nor so concise as the first, it is more ambitious. Kolakowski is trying to be a Marxist Kierkegaard, even to the extent of simulating the same use of irony by impersonation...
...more than the love that prompted it. Only when he works himself into an apoplectic fit over the prospect of disgrace, only when he screams at Nora for scarring his name, when he banishes her from his children lest her wickedness poison them, only then does Nora feel the contempt which had for so long passed for love between them...