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...formally proscribed by the law, which a President could legally undertake at indescribable cost to the Republic." Buckley imagined a number of fanciful actions for which a President should be indicted, such as commuting the sentences of all federal prisoners or taking a six-month vacation. Notwithstanding such reductio ad absurdum, Buckley says, the principle remains: "Congress has got to retain the right to pass judgment on gross presidential abuses: the true, and studied, disrespect for the sophisticated obligations of office...
Perhaps Woods did accidentally erase the tapes. If so, Nixon, with good cause, may feel his subordinates failed him. This is just the last in a long string of "failures" which serve the president, the reductio ad absurdum of the conduct of Mitchell, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Dean, Magruder, Stans, LaRue, Liddy, Colson, Mardian, Kalmbach...
...that Picasso's main contribution to modernity was Cubism is not, however, just. Cubism was an inexpressive system, and therein, admittedly, lay much of its beauty. But Picasso was also a master of expression. He could give a bronze skull a terrible, impacted and bulletlike solidity, the very reductio of death; or paint a jug so that it seemed distended with anxiety; or confer on the rounded limbs of his mistress in the '30s, Marie-Therese Walter, a rhythmic and sensuous languor that might otherwise have vanished from the nude after Ingres. No modern artist has been able...
...assuming that all of us here at Harvard are members of the same moral community--might be to suggest an alternative scale of priorities. But to respond by claiming that the world is so complex and our complicity so total that an ethical stand on one issue implies the reductio ad absurdum of a desert island morality will simply...
Technically, the building is just one more presidential library, maintained by the National Archives and Records Service like its far more modest counterparts, the Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, N.Y., the Truman Library in Independence, Mo., the Eisenhower Library in Abilene, Kans. Actually it is a reductio ad absurdum of the presidential library system. No doubt historians will in time sift its unwieldy contents and make some pattern of them. Meanwhile, the building itself exists to tell history what to think. This is one of the traditional functions of monuments, but rarely has it been so heavily exploited...