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...other top assistants is 37), and he presides over the daily 8 a.m. staff meeting. But his influence on policy has not broadened beyond relatively narrow legal areas, such as deciding the conflict-of-interest problems for Carter's appointees and advising the commutation of G. Gordon Liddy's Watergate sentence. A rapidly rising member of the Carter staff is Domestic Policy Assistant Stuart E. Eizenstat, 34. Although quiet and self-effacing, he has gained the respect of his colleagues for his grasp of complex issues. Carter too has taken notice. Said he, after the Administration...
...prisoner once wrote, a man "must be able to stand utterly alone, able to meet and deal with life relying solely upon his own inner resources." To show that he was such a man, he once held his hand over a candle flame without flinching. This is G. Gordon Liddy, 46, eccentric ex-lawyer who was sentenced to 20 years as a ringleader in the original Watergate breakin. The last of the seven Watergate burglars still incarcerated, Liddy has steadfastly refused to talk about the conspiracy, or to show, in John Sirica's words, "even a hint of contrition...
...GREAT REPUBLIC by BERNARD BAILYN, DAVID BRION DAVIS, DAVID HERBERT DONALD, JOHN L. THOMAS, ROBERT H. WIEBE and GORDON S. WOOD 1,319 pages. Little, Brown...
...prose is another matter. Each author has hewed strictly to the period assigned him, and no overall style has been imposed. The result is disappointingly uneven. In part two (1760-1820), Gordon S. Wood discusses the celebrated 1801 Cane Ridge revival, a bizarre religious event in Kentucky where, according to contemporary accounts, thousands fell into frenzied ecstasies. Wood captures none of its manic exuberance. In part three (1820-1860), David Brion Davis by contrast manages to make the often opaque character of Ralph Waldo Emerson both fascinating and comprehensible. Davis, who won his Pulitzer for The Problem of Slavery...
Charles Kavaloskl, horn; Phillip Oliver, piano; will be assisted on horn by Peter Gordon, Ralph Pottle, and Richard Mackey in a Faculty Series performance of works composed by Koehler, Rheinberger, and Bozza at the School for the Arts...