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...subject. Until the past fortnight, the White House was treating journalistic pursuit of the Watergate story as though it were malicious or downright unpatriotic. In his April 30 speech, belatedly but generously, the President actually praised the press for its work in exposing Watergate. Ron Ziegler picked up the cue the next day and, under some prodding, apologized for his contemptible attacks on the Washington Post. Amateur Zieglers, Agnews, Haldemans, Ehrlichmans all over the country will have to take notice...
MONDAY: Women of the Year. Ladies' Home Journal, taking its cue from the Pudding one supposes, presents a panoply of awards to members of the distaff gender for every accomplishment from business and economy (Katherine Graham, president of the Washington Post Company) to encouraging national beautification (Mary Lasker). Also, Helen Reddy sings her unabashed libber hit, "I Am Woman." CH.7. 10 p.m. Color...
Furthermore, in what position does his attitude put faculty-student committees, such as CHUL and CUE, which are generally weaker in specific mandate? Finally, where does this leave the individual in the Harvard community? Neither the faculty nor the student body has any significant influence in the decision-making process...
...strained pseudopoetic rhetoric and portentous declamatory style remind one of Maxwell Anderson scaling his molehills of dramatic verse. An intermittent sidebar monologue features an innocuous-looking Manson-family girl casually relating the horrors of the Sharon Tate murders with a lubriciously contented purr. Together with the repeated cue name of My Lai and references to the slaughter of innocents, of whom Iphigenia is the first, Rabe's intent is clear to the point of didactic overkill-to make the curse and crimes of the House of Atreus appear to be the inevitable pattern of all human behavior...
Explanations of Greek tragedy have all too often been left to professors with comfortable tenures writing in tidy studies. Words like hubris (head-spinning pride) and catharsis (purgation by pity and terror) begin to assume a certain noble abstractness. A sense of transcendental symmetry emerges, and on cue, a stately chorus preaches its final sermon of moderation to all those really excessive heroes. "Greek tragedy, my dear, decorum," Jean Genet wrote sarcastically in The Blacks. "The ultimate gesture is performed offstage...