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...music could be something like a Roy Lichtenstein painting of a comic book frame, mocking people's belief that 'art' should be separate from 'life,' off somewhere in a museum; and when Ives was serious the hymns could come from the stringency as naturally as Bach's last Goldberg Variation could turn out to be a quodlibet of folksongs...
Rockefeller will be grilled, too, about a matter that smacks more directly of questionable political tactics. In 1970 his brother Laurance put up $60,000 to produce a critical biography of former Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, who was running against Rocky for Governor at the time. It was written by Political Hatchet Man Victor Lasky, who had previously collected and pasted together every anti-Kennedy rumor he could find in his 1963 book, JFK: The Man and The Myth...
West Virginia Democrat Robert Byrd, when asked about the financing of the Goldberg book, said it was "reminiscent of the dirty tricks of the Nixon era." Rocky contends unconvincingly that he had known nothing about his brother's investment in the book until FBI agents raised questions about it during their confirmation investigation. Disingenuously, he adds that it was purely a money-making venture and that Brother Laurance lost about $52,-000 in the ill-conceived project. Actually, copies of the book never received general distribution, and even the author claimed that the book was used only...
...deftly worded wire to Goldberg, Rocky apologized, accepted "full responsibility for the whole regrettable episode" and termed it "utterly alien to and incompatible with the standards I have always tried to observe in my political life." Rockefeller said that he should have stopped the book project as soon as he learned about it but did not say when that...
...Goldberg told the alumni yesterday "there is a disproportionately large use of Harvard as a stepping stone to medical and law schools...