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Most of the columns are written in stream-of-consciousness style that leaps from notion to notion with scant regard for structure or logic, neither of which is a Frazier forte. Rather, his strength is an unerring eye for targets vulnerable to his wit, delivered in the bilious tones of an aggrieved headmaster. Once in a while he softens with memories of the good old days. He can sentimentalize at length about bar-hopping with Hemingway and Thurber, and pay tribute to Tim Costello, the late keeper of a Manhattan literary saloon, this way: "Without himself, who has been...
...Jason and weilds a mean spatula and dry mop while his wife Sandy goes off to teach. Though feminists have long argued that such role reversals are often desirable, how many men have actually agreed to swap the daily commuter train for domesticity? Report TIME correspondents nationwide: a very scant, very hardy...
...Daphne du Maurier story and raises it above its original status as a thriller, achieving a level of visual drama rarely encountered in any film. This is a film of exceedingly dramatic imagery and psychological complexity. The story line is, at times, almost non-verbal, because the dialogue is scant and simple and because the images are photographed and edited with such finesse that most dialogue is unnecessary...
From this mood, suggest several of the authors, there arose a crisis mentality that gave everything a life or death urgency. There was scant tolerance for moderate success or partial failure. Charles V. Hamilton, professor of government at Columbia University, argues that the crises of the '60s invariably passed through the same phases. First there was mild protest from a part of the public, then a mild response from the Government. This was followed by escalated protest, then a panic response. Once the panic had passed, there was a revulsion against whatever concessions had been made or promised...
Appointments to top staff positions have been made. As minority counsel the Republicans chose Albert Jenner, 66, a prominent G.O.P. attorney in Chicago who served as assistant counsel for the Warren Commission investigation of John Kennedy's assassination. He may provide scant partisan comfort to Nixon. In a TV interview, he said that "certainly within some areas the President should be responsible for the actions of aides," even if he did not know what the aide was doing...