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...frustration and absolute insecurity in a universe that conspires with one's worst self to make the sane, simple life impossible. This is best illustrated in a scene where K. sits at a table and trys to read. The actors crouching behind him each poke an arm through the crook of K.'s elbow: the hands begin to attack each other while K. looks helplessly on, believing his own body to be rebelling against itself...

Author: By Alice C. Van buren, | Title: Kafka Staged | 1/15/1974 | See Source »

...that the real reason is that Nixon's popularity has dived, thus making a "balanced" book about Nixon less likely to sell. Other publishers agree with Safire's assessment of the market. "The only book that would sell well would be one that exposed Nixon as a crook," says Vice President Donald Smith of Thomas Y. Crowell. Undaunted, Safire has demanded arbitration, as provided for in his contract with Morrow. "This," he says, "is the most pernicious kind of censorship - the censorship of the gutless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: White House White Elephants | 12/31/1973 | See Source »

Another student, faced with a choice between Nixon and Vice President Gerald Ford, concluded, "Better a crook than a clown...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: Law School Survey Indicates Students Want Nixon to Resign | 12/14/1973 | See Source »

...burglary of the Democratic National Committee? The President himself has told us not to think that he was that dumb. (A reassurance followed recently by another, when for the first time in history, a president of the United States felt compelled to announce to the nation: "I'm no crook." Mr. Nixon's rhetoric is as infelicitous as his record...

Author: By Bob Shrum, | Title: The Watergate Mythology | 12/4/1973 | See Source »

...KENNEDYS. In 1960, when John Kennedy was running for the presidency, Truman recalled, it was not the Pope he was afraid of moving into the White House. It was the Pop. "Old Joe Kennedy is as big a crook as we've got anywhere in this country, and I don't like it that he bought his son the nomination for the presidency. He bought West Virginia. I don't know how much it cost him; he's a tightfisted old son of a bitch; so he didn't pay any more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: Giving Them More Hell | 12/3/1973 | See Source »

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