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...Meyer Mishkin, Dreyfuss's press agent, said yesterday, "If it was the first award he had been offered this year he would be more excited. But I am sure he is flattered...
...Surprising casualness" (Raoul Berger of Harvard). "Dangerous nonsense" (Gerald Gunther of Stanford). "Disturbingly cavalier" (Paul J. Mishkin of Berkeley...
...Eager. Another result of the desire to head off criticism, said Berkeley's Mishkin, was that the court did not wish to seem to be judging Nixon's guilt and therefore avoided any "allusion to possible [criminal] implication of the President himself." That deprived the Justices of the chance to frame forthrightly a rule strong enough but narrow enough to deal only with a President suspected of wrongdoing...
...Mishkin and Gunther both felt that the court found itself in such compromising difficulties because of its willingness, even eagerness, to accept responsibility for solving major national problems-an expectation that the public increasingly shares. Urging a "diminished appetite for the judicial deus ex machina," Gunther pointed out that while the court's quick action in the tapes case soon brought down the President, it also short-circuited the impeachment process that was bringing needed new strength and admiration to the Legislative Branch. "The court's stepping in meant a self-fulfillment of the prophecy that Congress would...
Another distressing note is a persistent background wail that is apparently music supposed to heighten the film's dramatic impact. Instead, the sound evokes visions of some poor soul being tortured in the Tower of London by Vincent Price. The film's ultimate effect, as Mishkin would say, is enough to drive an audience meshugge...