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Moderator: Gentlemen, there have been some rumors going around lately about our new president that we thought you might help to clear up. First of all, it has been said of late that President Ford is an unwavering friend of the Pentagon and is firmly opposed to any and all cuts in the defense budget. Does the president's record in the House of Representatives support that statement...
COURT: You know, gentlemen, we really live at a time when government officials of all kinds have come in to disrepute, some of them very deservedly, but I really think that to unjustly attack a public official who has not earned that certainly is not in accordance with the responsibilities owing by a member of the bar. Frankly, I understood your use of the word "deliberate" in a more vernacular sense that the language of the case you read...
...conference at Cambridge, where an attempt was made to hammer out rules. The big question was: Should the ball be primarily handled or primarily kicked? Some said handled, and so evolved rugby football. Rugby has become the main game for other public schools. There the sons of gentlemen, who will never have to soil their hands in mine or factory, knock hell out of each other passing the ball backward. Americans, in their own padded and armored version of the game, pass the ball forward. This has always been taken by the British as typical American perverseness, like icing drinks...
...those of us who are not gentlemen, the paradox of football delights and intrigues. Albert Camus played goal. Sir Frederick Ayer, the philosopher, is a fan, and there is a sense in which soccer is a fair subject for a logical positivist. It is, after all, a precise and yet various system of semeiotics...
Among the few truthful and valuable items so far forged in the heat of the current revival are a one man play, The World of Lenny Bruce starring Frank Speiser, and a ranging and masterful critical biography, Ladies and Gentlemen--LENNY BRUCE!!, written by Albert Goldman employing the journalism of Lawrence Schiller...