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There was an old story going around the track circuit a couple of years back concerning pro football's middle linebacker Tim Rossovich's antics in a certain sprint race out on the west coast. Rossovich, a notorious "flake," to use the sportwriters' cliched epithet, had challenged the foremost sprinters in the nation to a 60-yard dash. As he stepped up to the starting line, he produced a can of STP oil, opened it, and proceeded to down the whole can. When the gun sounded, Rossovich took off with a sluggish start, and finished about three lengths behind...
...close to Nixon are now in fairly full agreement on the basic reasons. Foremost, according to them, was Nixon's awareness of history and his place in it. Nixon yearned to write one day a definitive work that would be the classic of presidential memoirs. With thousands of his conversations in the White House and the Executive Office Building available for precise-if selective -quotation, he could produce a detailed and colorful narrative far beyond the capability of any of his predecessors. "More than most Presidents," recalls one of his former assistants, "Nixon spent a lot of time poring...
Extremely Sensitive. Both men credit their success to drudging pursuit of the facts. But it was their handful of well-connected informants that basically accounted for their success and was the envy of the Washington press corps ?and the despair of the White House. Foremost among their key sources was a man whom the authors still tantalizingly refuse to name. They called him "Deep Throat," and report only that he was a preWatergate friend of Woodward's, a trusted and experienced Executive Branch official with "extremely sensitive" antennae that seemed to pick up every murmur of fresh conspiracy...
...days, when films were called movies, newspapers and magazines generally assigned reporters to do the reviewing. A movie was an event, like any other, and the same principles of journalism applied here. Therefore, first and foremost, the reviewer gave a plot summary, often in great detail; he listed the players, and, as it were, "reported" the general mood or impact that the experience of seeing the film was likely to convey...
...principles" were to be the foundation of every priest's philosophical and theological training. Brilliant Neo-Thomists like the French philosophers Jacques Maritain and Etienne Gilson had given Thomism a modern relevance. University of Chicago Philosopher Mortimer (The Great Books) Adler considered Aquinas to be one of the foremost molders of Western thought. In many Roman Catholic colleges, students got heavy doses of Thomism; later philosophical giants like Descartes, Hume and Kant were only mentioned for their errors...