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...Hunt contributes a brief essay on hush money. Former Nixon Aide Herbert L. Porter writes a cautionary tale about how easy it is to be caught in perjury. Such diverse commentators as Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Eugene McCarthy, Art Buchwald and exAgnew Press Aide Victor Gold comment on the myopia of power...
...wonders why Thomas insists on so distinguishing this book as a non-biography. To be sure, he has glossed over the Senator's childhood and concentrated on McCarthy's age of glory. But what has he gained? He still views history with the biographer's myopia: events are the footprints of the great man. He has written a book that is not a biography, but not a history either--merely a biography manque...
...wonders why Thomas insists on so distinguishing this book as a non-biography. To be sure, he has glossed over the Senator's childhood and concentrated on McCarthy's age of glory. But what has he gained? He still views history with the biographer's myopia: events are the footprints of the great man. He has written a book that is not a biography, but not a history either--merely a biography manque...
...Private Schools Sir / The myopia of those who like the National Council of Chunches, argue against tax credits for parents of nonpublic school students [May 28]. would be easier to accept if only these critics would acknowledge our support, through taxes, of the public-school systems we choose...
...look back on America the Beautiful with nostalgia? On the full-value dollar with an empty feeling in your wallet? Well, you shouldn't. To do so is to submit to "sentimentality, prejudice and myopia," according to Herbert Stein, 56, chairman of President Nixon's Council of Economic Advisers. Speaking before an audience of bankers, businessmen and educators in Richmond last week, Stein denounced critics of the President's new budget for their negative vibrations...