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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Smith declined to reveal the total value of pledges still outstanding, saying only the total is "over $5 million...

Author: By Andrew P. Corty, | Title: JFK Library Corp. 1972 Tax Return Shows Firm Is $14 Million in Black | 6/12/1974 | See Source »

Lately Thomas bills his book as "an objective reappraisal of The Senator Joseph McCarthy Affair," which gives us cause for hope; to underline the point, he subtitles it, "A Story Without a Hero." But if you thought that his dispassionate study would strip away the polemics and reveal the historical significance of the political turnaround in mid-twentieth century America, I'm afraid you'll be disappointed. Thomas fell into the onion trap; he was so busy stripping away he forgot to leave anything over; and his book, to switch vegetables, has all the force of a squeezed lemon...

Author: By Arthur H. Lubow, | Title: Beyond Guilt or Innocence | 6/10/1974 | See Source »

First, a feeling that the President's associates are to blame for his troubles rather than Nixon himself. More than half (59%) of the President's supporters agree that the transcripts reveal "a small group of sleazy operators who put their own interests ahead of the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME POLL: Nixon's Defenders Close Ranks | 6/3/1974 | See Source »

...shocking thing about the White House transcripts [May 13] is that they reveal the President to be a man so absorbed in denning the thin line between illegality and immorality that he has lost sight of the fact that both are equally unethical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 27, 1974 | 5/27/1974 | See Source »

...that Beethoven's art is more important than Napoleon's military skill-"an art," she unkindly notes, "highly wasteful of its materials." Napoleon, whose mind or spirit at this point is soaring like the last movement of "The Eroica, "appears to get the message: musical forms may reveal divine essences, while his own kinetic life has been shaped by a gargantuan but finite will, whose only form was eventually a form of selfdelusion. Napoleon Symphony is, in some sense, an entertaining and elaborate joke. What the punch line comes down to is the simple fact that even Napoleon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Grand Illusions | 5/27/1974 | See Source »

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