Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cook told it, the reference to Vesco drew a defensive reaction from Stans. At the time, Vesco's $200,000 contribution had not yet been disclosed, but the financier's $50,000 gift to the campaign was a matter of public record. Even so, Stans told Cook that he did not think that "they" had taken any money from Vesco...
...actually I looked into my coffee cup, and I said, 'Well,' and I kind of hesitated, and he said, 'Well, Brad, that's the way it happened, and there is no sense in getting everybody embarrassed here. There was nothing done wrong here. The gift was a legal gift. Your suit was brought, and all it would do is cause a great deal of embarrassment to everybody.' I said, 'Well, if that's the way it is going to be, I guess that's the way it is going...
...witness who caused the biggest stir among spectators last week was Rose Mary Woods, Nixon's personal secretary. She testified that Stans left Vesco's name off one list of campaign contributors-thus raising the possibility that he might have been trying to conceal the gift. But she noted that the financier's name appeared on a second list in the impeccable company of the four Rockefeller brothers...
...temperament and upbringing to hope. Yet his book is an epitaph on liberalism written with conspicuous pain by an author who includes himself in the epitaph. Heilbroner fits his own description of Promethean man, full of "driving energy," "nervous will": a problem solver. Now, he grimly concludes, that gift of fire may burn up the world. For the sake of the race Prometheus must go. To be replaced by whom? Atlas, Heilbroner proposes, the burden bearer rather than the problem solver: the man who plays life not to win but to survive. Before a reader is carried away by this...
...provide tacit admission to the strength of Kilson's position. They intuitively sense the lack of the existential dimension in his analysis, but they fail to analytically account for it. Why? Because the functional dimension of culture cannot be analytically understood solely from the existential perspective--such is the gift of only poets and artists. It is no surprise that Kilson's critics mistake his functionalist cultural assertions to be existential ones...