Word: frost
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Saturday morning. The birds are just beginning to start their musical songs and the frost has etched some magnificent patterns on the window panes. Where are you? Stop dreaming and let's get back to business--this isn't one of those crazy CIA tests where the aerosol LSD seeps out of the very paper you're reading...
...then he adds, typically, "God rest her soul because she, in her heart, was a good person." Nixon takes off after Martha, who died last year following a prolonged bout with bone cancer, in the fifth and presumably last of his taped television interviews with British Television Personality David Frost, being aired this month...
...Nixon show amounts to a pastiche of odds and ends from Frost's 28 hours of interviews-material left over from the four conversations that have already been aired. It involves a few new tidbits, but not much more. Who, for instance, erased 18½ minutes of taped conversations between Nixon and Aide H.R. (Bob) Haldeman? Nixon says he has no idea-but he does know who did not do it. "I didn't touch the machine," he says. Secretary Rose Mary Woods? Nor she, he says. "She's so smart, she'd a done...
...fountain that tumbles from a corner of Boston's Siena-like City Hall Plaza, where secretaries and bureaucrats now take their brown-bag lunches. Perhaps, like Robert Frost's pilgrim in Directive ("Back out of all this now too much for us"), the city folk find in their new fountains something of that hidden spring, where they can "drink and be whole again beyond confusion...
...long time ago, Robert Frost said he disliked college because the professors not only knew the answers but knew the questions. The old man understood media truth when media were still referred to as the press. Questions, not answers, preside. If you can get enough sober people asking enough loaded questions, you have carried the day or at least confused it beyond redemption. As I traveled, sports fans seemed to have lost every sense of focus...