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...Nixon's usurpations of congressional power lightly. His account of how the Nixon White House systematically used intimidation, impoundment of funds, secrecy and thin, though sinister invocations of "national security" and presidential prerogative to change the balance of constitutional power in the U.S. is the most deadly and lucid yet seen in print. At the end of the book Schlesinger urges impeachment...
When will we see these strong and lucid statements carved out in granite on the portals of that building which still bears his name yet stands in hypocritical defiance of most decent values that he represented? When, for that matter, will the Harvard-Radcliffe students have the will or courage to demand that buildings named for arrogant and loveless members of the ruling-class--Loeb, Lowell and Lamont--be named instead for those, such as that great and gentle Harvard drop-out named Pete Seeger, who had the brains to quit before his heart was dead and soul was cold...
...letdown; every junction is the vehicle of his meticulousness, proclaiming that a millimeter's change in the thickness of a mullion flange would read as a loss. The ground-floor film and lecture theater, with its black seats and dark teak rear wall, is a jewel of sober, lucid design. But on the large scale, all this is lost. Apart from the Houston Astrodome, one could barely imagine a less sympathetic space for showing art than Mies' vast curving hall, longer than a football field and 22 ft. high. "It's like trying to make the rotunda...
...Haydn Symphony No. 101 in D, "The Clock Symphony" was not so lucid or melodic. Handicapped by a series of accidents, including emergency sirens, a lost cello peg, and falling sheet music, Baker and company preserved their concentration and did a first rate job on this traditional classical piece...
...beforehand that she would be subjected to hostile questioning about Watergate. "She feels that it is her personal responsibility as a member of the family to defend her father," says a close friend. The defense she has mounted, mostly before young audiences and on television, has been impressively detailed, lucid and levelheaded...