Word: suspect
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John D. Rockefeller IV, 37. To his critics in West Virginia, Native New Yorker "Jay" Rockefeller is a suspect Democrat from a Republican family-and a carpetbagger to boot. Still, two years after arriving in Appalachia as a poverty worker, the nephew of Nelson Rockefeller and grandson of John D. Jr. easily won a seat in the state house of delegates, in 1968 was elected West Virginia's secretary of state. Handsome, rich, well educated (Exeter, Harvard, Yale) and well wed (his father-in-law is G.O.P. Senator Charles Percy), Rockefeller lost his bid for governorship...
...response to the lecturer's deliberate nuances, of course. Very few instructors, if any, take any pains to dispel the dangerous myth, very widespread in radical circles and among students in general, that because those who profess venerable systems do so hypocritically, the values themselves must be held suspect. Thus not only is the classroom devoid of partisan argument on behalf of particular value systems; but even less than at Berkeley or Central Washington or the other state colleges and universities I've been attached to does society's withdrawal from value systems of all kinds, and into a proliferation...
...however, can scarcely be constructed from such shards. Why, then, did he unburden himself to Bast? One theory is that Colson wanted to make a last desperate try to get himself (and the President) off the hook. So why not blame Watergate on the CIA, which is already highly suspect to much of the public and in no position to defend itself. If this was indeed the scheme, then considering how battered American institutions are and how in need of support and not defamation, it was one of the dirtiest tricks that Colson has played to date...
...grand jury hearing is not an adversary proceeding with the stringent rules of evidence and the right of cross-examination that exist in a trial. Prosecutors present material that may produce an indictment, but a suspect puts up no organized defense. Says Columbia Law Professor Benno Schmidt: "What you get if the press prints a story about a grand jury proceeding is by definition a one-sided story. The press has always, typically, published that kind of story without built-in qualifications." Many journalists are also uneasy. Howard Simons, managing editor of the Post, admits that violating grand jury secrecy...
Still and all, the play was the finest tragedy yet written in English, and it provided us with Shakespeare's first great female role. But I suspect even the dramatist himself had some doubts about his ability to handle tragedy at this stage of his career, for he lay the genre aside for some years and turned his efforts to penning a slew of histories and comedies. By no means would I wish to do without the play; it contains plenty of things to cherish, in addition to serving as the material for three masterpieces far greater than the play...