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...coat rack of my heart, my high school will always hang its hat on a higher peg than Harvard will. So when people started braying last week about "The Game," my thoughts turned instead to the Turkey Day classic that since 1888 has featured my alma mater against another Baltimore public high school...
...learned a lot since his 1970 The Anderson Tapes, handles ponderous scenes gracefully enough. He balances the action as Blank's mania foams more and more frequently and as Delaney's investigation quickens. The police work and even the climbing scenes are convincing. This book will probably peg the public's estimate of alpinists a degree or so below the current view of motorcycle racers and pornographers...
...Haydn Symphony No. 101 in D, "The Clock Symphony" was not so lucid or melodic. Handicapped by a series of accidents, including emergency sirens, a lost cello peg, and falling sheet music, Baker and company preserved their concentration and did a first rate job on this traditional classical piece...
...Frail Peg. Where the President was concerned, said Mitchell, his policy in effect had been "speak no evil," and the President had been quite ready to see and hear no evil. Mitchell claimed that he withheld what he knew from the President in their many conversations. Mitchell also claimed to be convinced, not by anything the President said but by what was not said in those conversations, that no one else, including John Dean, had told the President who had been involved in the Watergate planning or its cover-up until at least nine months after the arrests at Democratic...
That was a frail peg on which to hang the contention that Nixon did not know. Obviously, the Mitchell version runs counter to the voluminous testimony by Dean, Mitchell's onetime protégé at the Justice Department and the President's fired counsel. Dean had testified that beginning on Sept. 15, 1972, he and Nixon had discussed efforts to "contain" indictments to the seven low-level arrested Watergate wiretappers, offers of Executive clemency and payments of money to keep these men quiet, an attempt to influence a federal judge to delay Democratic civil suits until after...