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...should refuse to name his source, he could be held in contempt of court. The Supreme Court last year ruled that newsmen do have some special constitutional rights but must nonetheless answer grand jury questions unless the connection to a criminal investigation is "remote and tenuous." Because of the faint possibility of a criminal conspiracy being proved in this case, newsmen might be able to invoke successfully the inglorious but sturdy Fifth Amendment privilege against selfincrimination. More likely, though, their lawyers will again raise privilege arguments under the freedom of the press guarantees of the First Amendment...
That settles Rousseau's hash. Goldfein is no kinder to Freud. The great alienist, he imagines, met his rival Jung one day while strolling in Vienna. Freud felt faint, swooned, and sat down in the dust. Jung, much concerned, offered analysis: "We clear the air, eh, Sigmund? Ah yes, your passing out was a good thing. Hysterical. Yes. Hysteria neurosis. But a good thing." Freud blamed the fall on slippery leaves. " 'You passed out!' Carl insisted. 'Admit it. I know a shlip when I see one ... believe me, it was a healthy thing.' " Freud, much...
...writer when Yale Law offered a teaching position. After ten years in New Haven, Bork had settled happily into the standard scholarly clutter of his office, a roomy faded yellow stucco house with his wife and three children, a 1968 Volvo to get back and forth between them, and faint daydreams of some day chucking it all for isolation in Vermont. Then one evening, in the middle of a martini and a TV episode of The Avengers, Washington called...
...past few days it has seemed like old times in the United States Government. There have been the usual fusillades of idiocy from right and left, but beneath that there have been the first faint stirrings of concerned men ready to sit down together and try to make things work...
HARVARD WAS quiet last Spring. The turbulent events of the past few years--building seizures, picket lines spewing invective, trashing marches--all disappeared, leaving behind only faint memories, seniors regaling freshmen with tales of the past in dining halls and library alcoves. The electric ambiance of the past was quitely defused: the ever-present sense of contingency gave way to a deadening statis...