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...Brien, former Treasury Secretary John Connally and former Chief Justice Earl Warren.) Rash said his gifts were "strictly on a personal, family, nonpolitical basis." Neither Dundore nor Jones would comment. Agnew's press secretary, J. Marsh Thomson, said he would not comment "on anything in the realm of gifts exchanged between friends...
...seem unreasonable in an Alaskan context. "As long as they stuck to protecting the environment, the Sierra Club was a very worthwhile organization," says Chuck Evans, vice president of the First National Bank of Anchorage. "But when they start attacking progress and profit, they're out of their realm." One bumper sticker puts it more crudely: "Let the bastards freeze in the dark...
SENATOR ERVIN and the Committee should take advantage of their opportunity to make certain that this kind of delay does not happen again. They should prepare legislation to create a permanent organization to investigate and report on election scandals. So that this organization would itself be out of the realm of political electioneering, it would most appropriately fit as a special branch of the Federal court system. Three judges might be a proper number for this unique tribunal, which would act as an investigating grand jury, with complete power to issue subpoenas, grant immunity, and deliver indictments as it deemed...
...burdened it for so long. He sought to dispell altogether the illusion of art. And if Duchamp's nihilistic assertions had been listened to the whole idea of art would long be abandoned. The idea, that is, of art as something separate from life roped off in a realm of its own, of art as responsible for bringing about a new existence through a revolution in consciousness, as something to be treasured while it mummifies in museums, as something that can accrue priceless value, or, for that matter, be bought and sold at all, and of the artist...
...clearly inapplicable to American society at present with its atomized social structure and schizophrenic life-styles. To read the essays of many of these new conservative writers in conjunction with, say, the entire journalistic opus of Tom Wolfe is to be aware that these conservative writers often inhabit a realm of abstraction penetrated at times by only vague eminences from the real world. Contemporary affluence has unleashed innumerable ego-trips, not the pursuit of virtue. The California electrical worker making $23,000 a year does not read Aristotle and Kant, he merely does weird things and is all too willing...