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...philosopher of language," Jerome H. Buckley, Gurney Professor of English Literature, said yesterday. "He was at times a difficult and abstruse critic--he built bridges between philosophy and literary theory," he added...
...love of opera. Richard Bellamy (David Langton), always preoccupied with the House of Commons, gratefully asks their guest to take his place and escort his wife to Tristan und Isolde at Covent Garden. Naturally they fall in love over a Liebestrank, and soon the magnificent Lady Marjorie (Rachel Gurney) is cavorting in Hammond's bed, away from home, husband and servants...
...everyone got off, however. Congressman John McFall, reprimanded with his two California colleagues for taking Tongsun Park's gifts, lost. So did Philadelphia Congressman Joshua Eilberg, indicted for taking legal fees to help secure federal funds for a local hospital. Former Senator and Watergate Committee Member Edward Gurney of Florida, who was accused but acquitted of taking bribes for Government favors and lying to a grand jury, was defeated in a race for the House. And Florida Congressman Herbert Burke, charged with resisting arrest, disorderly intoxication and trying to influence a witness after an incident in a nude...
Memorial services for Myron P. Gilmore, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, will be held in Memorial Church this Friday...
...former boss Richard Nixon. During the Watergate hearings, asked Cavett, did Ehrlichman feel he was being held to the fire by "men more honorable than yourself?" "Well," Ehrlichman replied, "I never had that suspicion about the Senate in general." As for the Watergate committee, which included Herman Talmadge, Edward Gurney, and the late Joseph Montoya, Ehrlichman said, "A lot of them have stumbled or in one way or another have been enmeshed." Added Ehrlichman, with scarcely concealed satisfaction: "It's a little bit like the people who opened King Tut's tomb...