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FOR 15 YEARS now Wolfe has scampered up the trellis of his style. Up, up he went, up the face of one of those Riverside Drive apartments he pretends to despise so much. Peering in through the picture window he discovered, in a perverse parallel to Orwell's Animal Farm...
by J. ANTHONY LUKAS 626 pages. Viking. $1 5.
Powerlessness corrupts. In 1970 President Richard Nixon felt beleaguered by the Democrats, the kids on campus who were raising hell over his invasion of Cambodia, and by Washington bureaucrats, many of them still Kennedy-era holdovers who leaked presidential secrets to Nixon's "enemies" in the press. It was...
That much-worked-over ground is Lukas' subject matter. He gathers his moss only from the underside of Nixon's career. He does not praise the President's foreign policy or celebrate his kindness to children and dogs. On the other hand, he also scrupulously avoids the...
An international Protestant leader has added a new item to the crowded agenda for ecumenical discussion between Protestants and Roman Catholics. Writing in the Journal of Ecumenical Studies, the Rev. Lukas Vischer, top staff theologian at the Geneva-based World Council of Churches, criticizes the political status of Vatican City...