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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...never blackmailed Nixon in any form, manner or kind...I work for the President of the United States. I would have been disloyal, treasonable or anything you want to call it, if I'd tried any such trick and I certainly did not...I'm being a little bit positive in raising my voice...because I want to convey to you the fact that I mean...
...subscribers to the scholarly life were uncooperative. Hale Champion, special assistant to Bok, said when in the bathroom, he peruses "whatever I'm reading anywhere else--newspapers, books, magazines...
Some prefer literature to current events. Albert B. Lord, Porter Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature, reads "a variety of things, but at the moment I'm reading some Bulgarian short stories partly because of a paper I'm writing on fantasy and the occult." That's fine for a scholarly mood, but for light reading, Lord likes "mostly detective stories--occasionally science fiction...
Donald L. Fanger, professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature, hit the floor after hearing the question. "I'm not used to making public confessions of that sort," he blushed. But then he opted for a "professorial comment." "It's always seemed that the bathroom might be the ideal setting for Finnegan's Wake," he surmised. "In my experience, Finnegan's Wake is best approached in short takes rather than in long segments...
Donald H. Fleming, Trumbull Professor of American History, spends his time on the toilet bettering his mind with Teutonic tracts. "If I read anything I read German history books to improve my German. I'm not very good at it," he admitted, "but I'm trying to get better." Hang in there...