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...President Who Resigned in Ignominy. As it is, he will be recorded merely as a footnote to Watergate. The speed with which he was forgotten was remarkable; after he left Washington on October 10, 1973, there were no prayers offered by Rabbi Korff, no million dollar interviews with David Frost, no Woodward and Bernstein account of his (and Judy's) final hours. It was not long before many had forgotten that he had not been felled by the Watergate scandals but had pleabargained his office away in exchange for immunity from prosecution for having accepted cash payoffs during his years...
...continue to drift apart; the art may yet degenerate totally into self-therapy. Fame is now reserved for poets who do something else- like writing bestselling novels (Erica Jong, James Dickey). There is no serious living writer whom the reading public gets by heart the way it once learned Frost and Auden. That echo in the brain now comes from rock lyrics and TV jingles. But set against all the reasons for pessimism are the voices, this spring, of these five poets. They show that it is still possible to discover the private, contemplative rewards that finely wrought language...
...Californian who would Talk California-a state so blessed. He said, in climate, none had ever died there A natural death. Robert Frost...
...through a glass case can substitute for the experience of holding and turning it under natural light, observing the grain of the steel surface, the contrasts of polish, the relentlessly delicate curves of ridge and back, and the hamon or temper pattern-hard as diamonds and impalpable as blown frost-along its cutting edge...
...book is for the wastebasket. A young black couple is taken on a tour down memory lane by three canny professionals (Avon Long, Josephine Premice and Joseph Attles) who are old but ageless. But there is no frost on their bones. This show comes from the tor rid zone...