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...human interest" features, still looking a mite incongruous beside the troubled headlines, that bob up on the front of the second section, or snake around the Gimbel's and Macy's advertisements. These are the stories that, according to the book's Preface, "do not break," but "trickle, seep, and ooze. The Times is covering the ooze...
...difficult for these abstract facts to seep in. Harvard is a secure enclave in a shaky society, a verdant oasis in a parched economy. Come 5:30 or 6:00 we close our magazines to head downstairs to the dining hall, where we are ladled out as much as we can eat. We put aside our newspapers to run to the library to check out a book for an upcoming exam. We turn off the radio as we hurry to Harvard Square to do some errands...
...tide has come," the Eliot said, "Inside our shoes to seep...
...became a master at ignoring comments that would seep out of the mouths of unthinking minds. I was plagued by arrogant comments like: "Californians are lightweights and are only concerned with flaunting their tanned bodies," or "If California can produce a Nixon, it's got to be a sick place." At first I would fight back and defend myself from further attack. But I soon realized that a defensive strategy would never quell the ignorance of such stereotyped ideas...
...White House since the first batch of tape transcripts was released April 30. ABC News President Elmer Lower began looking ahead even earlier: in June 1973 he recommended that outlines of coverage of a Nixon departure be drawn up; by Jan. 14 of this year, the network's SEEP (Special Events Emergency Plan) was fleshed out on paper. Prepared over several months, the New York Times's "quit package" grew to seven ready-to-print pages on the Nixon presidency...