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...most part, however, the President remained alone and out of reach in the private den of Casa Pacifica, a few hundred yards by fringe-top golf cart from his working office. Perhaps the best indication of his private thinking was offered by his daughter Tricia Cox, who declared spiritedly at the Ash party: "Innocence is innocence -and my father is innocent. If the committee votes to impeach, it will just be a political move by people who want to get Richard Nixon out of office. But they won't get away with it. This is a country of justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Hanging In There at San Clemente | 8/5/1974 | See Source »

Grendel's Den...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Glutton's Guide to the Square | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

Interesting restaurants and reasonable prices are a rarity around Harvard, but both can be found in Grendel's Den...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Glutton's Guide to the Square | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

...have taken reluctant and delayed pride in being one of the practitioners of the art. Some day-s-o-m-e d-a-y-I will cut out the article and frame it for my den wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 1, 1974 | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

...produced more dubious double entendres than anyone before or since. Some are readily perceived: Hamlet's announcement, "Then came each actor on his ass," meant then what it does now. In the first Elizabethan world - when there were some 40 euphemisms for sexual organs (including will, dial and den)-almost every passage twinkled with lewdness. Like today's cheerless smut, the Elizabethan bawdiness was both deplored and exploited. The nonsexual slang has traveled with greater success: here are the witches in Macbeth, telling each other to "cool it"; here is Anthony in Julius Caesar: "I have neither...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Contemporary Bard | 6/24/1974 | See Source »

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