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President Nixon argued that his confidential material is not subject to judicial review, yet he subjected his argument to judicial disposition. He let his antagonist, the judiciary, decide the dispute. Contrary to settled Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence at least since Coke, that antagonist was the judge of its own cause...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A NEW CHARTER | 8/20/1974 | See Source »

Blacks have by no means been totally accepted in the upper echelons of big business. Almost all top corporation officers are white, and, for that matter, most are white Anglo-Saxon. "It is more profitable for a young black man to think he can rise to be President of the U.S. than it is for him to think he can become president of a FORTUNE 500 company," says Richard Clarke, the employment recruiter. Many black executives are referred to by other Negroes as H.N.l.C.s (Head Nigger in Charge); they are assigned to public relations jobs or marketing to black customers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: America's Rising Black Middle Class | 6/17/1974 | See Source »

...made by Buzhardt, a lay Southern Baptist minister from South Carolina who neither smokes, drinks nor cusses. But while Buzhardt saw fit to delete every "goddam," "Jesus Christ" and other examples of presidential irreverence, he left intact a good many four, five, ten-and twelve-letter specimens of Anglo-Saxon earthiness. These fell before Nixon's own blue pencil. So too did some ethnic slurs used by Nixon. According to the New York Times, the President referred to Judge Sirica as "that wop," spoke of "those Jewboys" in the Securities and Exchange Commission, and described L. Patrick Gray III, then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATERGATE: Further tales from the transcripts | 5/20/1974 | See Source »

...mode is heavy irony, a technique that is not familiar to Anglo-Saxon literature but is a staple of Middle Europe. A general, getting to heaven, demands to know why the soldiers he passes do not do "Eyes right." His driver explains that they cannot because their heads have been blown off. When the battalion goes to get rations, they get instead a postcard with the message...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Czech 22 | 3/25/1974 | See Source »

...EDWARD SAXON...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 18, 1974 | 3/18/1974 | See Source »

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