Word: roles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about the process of the Senate committee's investigation. What the book does provide is a large chunk of new Watergate trivia; gossip--and often nothing more--about individual senators on the committee and Dash's own investigators, spiced with a few professorial observations about due process and the role of congressional investigating committees...
...himself, although Committee Chairman Sam J. Ervin of North Carolina takes nearly equal billing. The villain is principally Senator Howard Baker, the Republican from Tennessee, who served as vice chairman. Another villain, interestingly, is Archibald Cox '34, Williston Professor of Law, with whom Dash tangled during his short-lived role as the Watergate special prosecutor. It soon becomes clear that anyone who impeded the investigation that Dash envisioned comes under fire in Chief Counsel, and this predictability of Dash the author is what principally weakens the book...
...watchful for these new developments. It is increasingly aware of the potential role that it could play in the Middle East, and the Carter administration will probably try to exploit the opportunity arising from a new and dynamic situation. Since Zbigniew Brzezinski, Carter's foreign policy advisor, has stressed the need for a solution to the Palestinian question as a prerequisite for progress in the Middle East, considerable pressure on Israel can be expected...
...auditioning for the role of Amanda Prynne in the Middlebury College production of Private Lives, one coed had something of an edge. After all. Amanda Plummer had been named for Noel Coward's histrionic heroine 19 years earlier by Mother Tammy Grimes and Father Christopher Plummer. What is more, Tammy herself had won a 1970 Tony Award in the same role on Broadway. "I had seen my mum do the part many times, and I liked the way she did it," allowed Amanda, who invited her parents to Vermont to catch her college stage debut. Stage Mother Tammy gave...
Calling the Pentagon a "rat-hole in Virginia," the ex-Marine added, "America needs to reject its historic role as police officer of the world, gun-runner of the world, counter-insurgency expert of the world...