Word: marginalia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wasteland, all that is left to do is pick it apart into ashes and let them scatter about in modernist prose, hoping that something new and different will happen. In Box Man every conceivable "new" technique is used--from describing the color of ink used in the marginalia, printed verbatim, to a fight between the box man and his fictitious alter-ego about who is the real narrator of the story...
Nearly all of the important Watergate revelations, and the marginalia as well, have been "source stories"?articles drawn from anonymous investigators of, or participants in, the scandals. The sources have usually been, as reported, "reliable," "knowledgeable," "highly placed" or otherwise certified adjectivally as credible. The use of unattributed stories makes the press vulnerable. Editorialists across the country demand that Nixon reveal all his secret conversations while at the same time insisting that journalists have the right to total confidentiality. The apparent double standard seems all the more blatant when newspapers become preachy on the issue. Last summer, during...
Apart from the evidence it provides about the President's critical conversations, the edited transcript furnishes a potpourri of marginalia that limn the style and character of the Nixon White House. A representative sampler...
Such may become the marginalia of history if George is elected. But at the moment the children are too busy to look very far ahead. As Susan Rowen says: "We're very involved in the campaign. Living in the White House, or visiting it, is just too unreal...
...These marginalia dovetail with Anderson's more important work. A wide vein of moralism runs through much of his writing and his suddenly prominent persona. Though congenial and even gentle off the job, he adopts an almost snarling style in his frequent speechmaking and conveys rigid righteousness on paper. In his own mind he is a man with a mission; its imperatives are not to be denied. He calls himself a "watchdog on government" and says that he was "brought up with a sense of duty and a sense of outrage." He insists that the drinking or leching capers...