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...offset the feeling that Scott didn't put much thought into his characterizations. The stories were probably written to make money, and, in the wave of a Twenties- Fitzgerald revival, this collection was printed to make some more. If they thought it would sell, Scribners might be tempted to publish the grocery bills. Bits of Paradise represents the trappings of Fitzgerald's writing--his style, characters and themes-- without the substance: the elements of paradise are very fragmentary...
Ellsberg made public his talk with the Niemans yesterday, denouncing Colby's off-the-record meeting with Niemans last night and describing such briefings--in which journalists agree not to publish what they learn--as "a method of plugging newsmen into the government bureaucracy and making them part...
Frome and some of his partisans insist that Stream's waters are murkier than that. Frome claims that after Samson was made editor in 1972, he was told not to "name names." Frome says that Samson, for example, refused to publish his criticism of John McGuire, chief of the Forest Service. Frome insists: "They want to play it safe and steady...
Such observations fairly spewed out when the editors of the UCLA Law Review asked nine constitutional experts to assess the Supreme Court's U.S. v. Nixon decision last summer in the case of the White House tapes. This week the Law Review will publish the responses as a legal symposium, and despite the popular admiration that greeted the court's ruling, the academics for the most part rated the opinion at barely a gentleman...
Nature said that the original SRI paper was "weak in design and presentation," that its details were "disconcertingly vague," that some methods used were "naive," and that the experimenters showed "a lack of skill." Nonetheless, after sending the paper back to SRI for modifications, the magazine finally decided to publish it. Why? It had been submitted by "two qualified scientists" with the backing of a major research institute; the subject was "worthy" of investigation; the paper would allow other researchers "to gauge the quality of the Stanford research and assess how much it is contributing to parapsychology...