Word: taping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contemplating suicide as Watergate brought him down? "I saw no evidence of it, "said President Gerald Ford as he campaigned in Fresno, Calif. Had James St. Clair, Nixon 's chief Watergate attorney, flown off to Boston at a critical time without listening to the most damaging Watergate tape? "On that weekend, Washington just wasn 't a good place to be," he declared...
...garbage to determine how they spend their lives would have found nothing enlightening in our trash. Perhaps there was a crumpled note from an unrequited dancer to his tormentress, but there were no incriminatory condoms, needles, or stains. This had been a typical Harvard party--elevated perhaps by a tape of reggae and soul, distinguished maybe by the eclectic crowd--but in reality just another boring bash. In our trash was the spoor of the Saturday night regulars: a tiny contingent of Third World people, a handful of Wellesley women, a pride of preppies, and a torrent of ordinary white...
THERE IS a decidedly medieval cast to Martin's mind that undermines the credibility of Hostage to the Devil. His claims are hurt by not divulging the names of the possessed or offering to release the tape recordings. And he has an unreasoning prejudice against psychology and liberal reform in the Catholic Church. The little humor found in this book centers around psychiatrists who meddle in exorcisms. A New York psychiatrist advises a college professor who is plagued by a spirit that his problem is religious guilt and that he should "lay some broads." "That 'll do the trick...
Martin does not stop there: using tape recordings (now a standard procedure at exorcisms) and entries from the diaries of participants, he reconstructs the five exorcisms. The material varies: at times he evokes nothing more than memories of William P. Blatty's lurid prose or of bad National Enquirer exposes; alternately, without warning, Martin produces rather alarming dialogues between exorcist and spirit that touch at the heart of modern evil. This is the strength of Hostage to the Devil; it offers an insight into the evil not only of Buchenwald and My Lai but also into the more personal evil...
...hand. He established a daily regiment: two hours of work in a room maintained at optimal temperature and humidity, at precisely the same time each morning, immediately followed by lunch, his reward. He carried a pen and pad with him at all times, and kept a tape recorder at bedside, as crutches for his fallible human memory, which might miss stray bits of "verbal behavior" that popped out at inconvenient times. He also probably made use of his "spare mind"--catalogued files of index cards which contain each idea he has had about psychology, and the date it occurred...