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...issue of LIFE, Chet Huntley, then about to retire from NBC, was quoted on Nixon: "The shallowness of the man overwhelms me; the fact that he is President frightens me." White House aides were apoplectic. Magruder wrote a memo recommending 18 separate "follow-ups" to the Huntley remark, including the planting of a column on news objectivity, the recruitment of a journalism-school dean to speak on press fairness as a serious problem and the production of a prime-time TV special intending to show how commentators can slant news through raised eyebrows. A memo to Magruder from Haldeman...
...reader's, and a usually rich, arrogant hero who initially patronizes the heroine, then sweeps her off her feet "like a leaf in the wind" into a blissful, totally unLiberated marriage. Curses never go beyond an impetuous hero's "God's teeth!" ("What a shocking remark!" exclaims the heroine.) Sex never gets further than a kiss, but manages to crop up in perfervid abundance anyway. (Flushed heroines protest, "No, I don't go in for promiscuous kissing.") And the ubiquitous third-person narrator wonders: "What on earth was the matter with her ... turning color just because...
There are a lot of lines that sound like poetry in Vladimir Mayakovsky: A Tragedy, but it's hard to identify them for sure because they don't have much of a context. "All these people here are mere bells on the duncecap of God," remarks one character (the parts are pretty much interchangeable, as near as I could tell, except for the impressive individualization the Cambridge Ensemble occasionally imposes on the writing). The others, as they often do, chime in with repetitions of important questions which no one ever attempts to answer. There's been no previous mention...
SPIRO AGNEW, a lesser crook in the Nixon den of thieves, ended his farewell address to the nation on a note of reassurance. Quoting from a remark made by James A. Garfield upon the assassination of President Lincoln, Agnew said. "Fellow citizens, God reigns and the government in Washington still lives...
...coins, butterflies and finally books. By 1923, Lewis had acquired 1,000 books of English literature. "I really didn't care about them," he says. "Yet I knew if I could get interested in one person, I could have a direction for life." Through pure serendipity*-a chance remark of a friend at a dinner party-Lewis came upon the writings of Walpole and found a direction...