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...page decision that the President must surrender his tapes relied heavily on legal and political precedents-on the theory of the Constitution, the trial of Aaron Burr and President Truman's unsuccessful attempt to take over the steel industry. In threading his way through this maze, Sirica carefully took up and rejected virtually all the arguments that the White House lawyers had presented. His verdict, though phrased with the density of legal language, is a historic document. Excerpts...
HERE IS an album that continues Preview's rediscovery of solitude. Its songs are by and large a maze of descending progressions. On first listening, each seems a discrete unit, with a distinctively distanced point of view. Immersion in the album indicates that Morrison has abandoned domesticity, in favor of detachment. He seems to be passing along visions...
...section is worth getting through. Beyond it lies Boorstin's often critical commentary on what the Go-Getters really got-and how they got it. A lawyer himself, Boorstin seems bemused at the profession's remarkable good fortune in guiding business through the legal maze of the federal system; in 1968, he reports, lawyers took in $5.2 billion in fees...
...modern writer resist returning to the Greek myths to explore their endless, labyrinthine paths and to remap their ambiguous meanings into the maze of the twentieth century? The myths are so rich in tragedy, epic lives, passionate ideals, saturnalian revelry, and comic twists of fate that they beg for modernization. Claiming such undertakings to be bastardizations, staid classicists might curse the lack of inspiration, the sterility of these transformations. "Myths," said Camus, "are made for the imagination to breathe life into them." John Gardner's epic poem, Jason amd Medeia shows that the modern imagination, violently panting while it makes...
...tremendous ego and frightful delusions. Outwardly self-contained, he helps the hopeless alcoholics in his ward by dominating group therapy and confronting their inadequacies. But he rarely reaches into himself; he is blind to his own shortcomings. He is something of a Cain-figure, lost in a psychological maze of anger and nurtured rejection. Severance, a Pulitzer Prize winning scientist, art critic, and pop intellectual, feels that his status as a celebrity is the source of his troubles. Here Berryman projects his own sense of inadequacy onto Severance. But his strong personal tone doesn't jell with the Rennaissance...