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...Nixon last week hung tough, adamant and defiant. He flouted the constitutionally sanctioned impeachment process by informing the House Judiciary Committee that he will ignore all pending and future subpoenas for White House tapes and documents. He directed his attorneys to appeal Federal Judge John J. Sirica's succinct ruling that Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski's subpoenas for 64 tape recordings are legally binding upon the President. He took legal action to kill court-sanctioned subpoenas for White House files from two defendants in the impending Daniel Ellsberg burglary trial, thereby advancing the possibility that charges against...
...kind of grace. The seediest dreams, tended like a campfire, served at least to make the emptier expanses of the soul more habitable. O'Neill explored the idea most thoroughly in The Iceman Cometh, which he wrote in 1939. Two years later, he stated it with a succinct force in Hughie, a one-act play that he planned as part of a series called "By Way of Obit...
...Pierpont Morgan sat for the most succinct photograph of big money ever taken: Alfred Steichen's portrait of the financial titan glaring at the intrusive lens, an old, suspicious bull walrus, one hand gripping the chair arm as though about to reduce its mahogany to flinders, highlights glittering sharply on his eyeballs. He looks like a boiler on the verge of explosion. If Morgan had never felt the impulse to collect, this photograph would still have given him a place in the history of art. But it would have been a footnote compared to the one he occupies. Morgan...
...prosecutor's instinct for the kill, Jaworski is not so interested as Cox was in legal theory and lengthy staff discussions on the meaning of the law. Once his cases are sound, he wants to get them quickly to court. He is also a remarkably direct and succinct man in verbose Washington, setting some kind of record in his rare TV interview appearances for the number of questions answered per square minute of air time...
...recent years the task of educating New Yorkers in the history and subtleties of Eastern art has mainly been shouldered by two institutions: the Japan Society, founded in 1907, and the Asia Society, both of which have an impeccable track record of succinct, informative exhibitions. The concerns have a trustee in common: John D. Rockefeller III, 67, who became a collector of Oriental art after a trip to Japan with John Foster Dulles in 1951 and in 1956 founded the Asia Society. Last week it was announced that Rockefeller, in stepping down from the society's chairmanship, had given...