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...even if, in the future, the school does get around to decking its modest halls with the images of graduates-made-good, it is unlikely that the paintings will display bushy-eyebrowed judges in their robes, nor silver-haired, pipe-smoking scholars of the law. Instead, they will probably depict a long-haired man working in a tenants' organizing office, or a tee-shirted woman advising welfare mothers of their rights...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: They Do Things Differently at Northeastern Law School | 5/29/1974 | See Source »

...bear most directly on the President's guilt or innocence are excerpted in chronological order, with comment and annotation, on these and the following pages. As Nixon said, many of these words are ambiguous, but many of them are less so than the White House has tried to depict them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATERGATE: The Most Critical Nixon Conversations | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

...investigation of his affairs by the Securities and Exchange Commission. He also said that it was Nixon's former political adviser, the late Murray Chotiner, who had told him that $200,000 of the gift should be made in cash. Vesco went on to depict the President and himself as victims of a vague political conspiracy and said that three prominent members of past Administrations had attempted six months before the Watergate break-in to enlist his help in bringing down Nixon. Cronkite failed to ask their names; indeed, the questioning was rather gentle. When Cronkite did ask pointedly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Visiting with Vesco | 4/15/1974 | See Source »

...library to accomplish its mission, it must provide a meaningful education program. I do not argue here that presidential libraries are unimportant, nor that this one in particular has been planned in a grandiose fashion. Quite the contrary, because the program has been imaginatively designed to depict the lives of John and Robert Kennedy, it will surely become a major tourist attraction...

Author: By Councilor FRANCIS H. duehay, | Title: The Kennedy Library | 4/9/1974 | See Source »

...soon believe. Parents are the go-betweens, handing down beliefs from the very old to the very young. In sharp contrast to the current American preoccupation with youth, this elderly population revels in its years. The sagacity of age is valued more than the vivacity of youth. Psychologists often depict these people as brutalized by modern America and robbed of their self-esteem, but these Hispanic-Americans feel that they are emminently important human beings, worthy of the love, respect and veneration they receive from their grandchildren. The fierce pride instilled in their children is indicative of their whole approach...

Author: By Linda G. Sexton, | Title: Two Languages, One Soul | 3/15/1974 | See Source »

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