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...Riggs was playing like a man being stoned, and his last game was pure throwaway. He slapped and missed two easy forehands, double-faulted at deuce, and on match point stuffed a sure putaway into the net. It was as if he had played out one long apology, in regret for a boast gone bad. King's smile was wide and happy...
...pleased to find that you had consulted my book, Impeachment: The Constitutional Problems, for light on the question "Can Nixon and Agnew Be Tried?" [Aug. 20]. But I regret that you attributed to me the view that the "double jeopardy clause might preclude prosecution for the same acts that caused a President to be removed from office." This suggests that I regard an impeachable offense as criminal in nature, from which it follows that a subsequent prosecution by indictment would be barred...
Sharp Critic. In the midst of his success, Harris has one regret: "My readers and my patients seem to understand me better than other psychiatrists do." Indeed, President Burness Moore of the American Psychoanalytic Association finds transactional analysis "superficial," and Psychiatrist James Gordon of Washington, D.C., calls it "a hermetic system, defensively, self-righteously complete, dangerously closed to outside criticism and change...
...impossible for me to believe that an American President could be a criminal; therefore I only regret that he could not "cover up" better, investigate quietly, and punish properly...
MENTION "PARIS '68" to any French student and watch his face cloud with regret for a dream in defeat. The failed promise of Paris '68 has punctured his idealism, depressed his beliefs, and most likely by now put a permanent crease into his posture...