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...goofy dragon; its tail is dollar bills, its hide is plated with nickels for scales. As its pink wings flap, its head lolls over the façade with a kind of maniacal sloth. Above this symbol of Capital, in the tower, sits the old five-and-tenner Frank Winfield Woolworth himself, observing the seagirt isle with the proprietary air of King Kong...
Rodino had long since been thoroughly convinced that impeachment was warranted by the committee's vast accumulation of evidence that was presented by Special Counsel John Doar and Minority Counsel Albert Tenner through eleven weeks of closed hearings and laid out in 36 notebooks of "statements of information." Rodino had one main aim as the days of decision approached: to secure maximum committee support for any articles of impeachment that would be recommended to the House. He knew that there was no hope of enlisting about ten Republicans firmly committed to Nixon's defense, but he hoped that articles could...
...There is definite evidence that the quality of the federal judiciary has been going up," says Albert Tenner Jr., former head of the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary. Nixon has appointed a total of 135 people to the federal bench, and four of his nominations are pending in the Senate. The A.B.A., which rates each one before confirmation, found 72 "well qualified" or "extremely well qualified"; not a single nominee was ruled out as "not qualified." John Kennedy managed to nominate eight men whom the A.B.A. blackballed, and Lyndon Johnson four. Nixon has followed...
...leading expert on cepts is Princeton Senior Ed Tenner, a Phi Beta Kappa who devised the "smallest convenient unit of knowledge" definition. He reports, after much research, that Princeton courses average, per lecture, 8.8 cepts in philosophy, 5.2 in American history, 4.6 in literature, a mere 1.5 in art. A student may emerge from a course with as many as 250 cepts in his notebook. Hopefully, a few rare "kilo-cepts" and "multicepts"-cepts so basic they can be applied in many courses and to almost any historical period-may turn up among them, although Tenner has been able...
Princeton's philosophy department recently was concerned enough about the potential evils of ceptsmanship to hold a meeting on how to stop its spread. And even Ceptsman Tenner, when not in a whimsical mood, gets a bit worried: "The ceptsman too often thinks he knows more than he does because of his superficial felicity. We may be getting a generation of illiberal liberal-arts majors who think of ideas as symbols to be manipulated rather than as important issues to be serious about...