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...Ziegler explained with a straight face last week, because "in our judgment it was of dubious relevance." This incredible assertion was echoed by St. Clair. It contains this comment by the President on March 22,1973: "John Dean . . . put the fires out, almost got the damn thing nailed down till past the election and so forth. We all know what it is. Embarrassing goddamn thing the way it went, and so forth...
Rahsaan Roland Kirk is next door at the Jazz Workshop till the end of the weekend. Kirk is very high-energy and plays a zillion instruments, many of which you've never even heard of, often all at once. He's a giant anomaly in progressive jazz whose hay-days never seem to end. In a week less full of uniformly good stuff we'd recommend him without a second thought; he may be hard to squeeze in this week, what with Chem 20 hourlies piling up and all, but you really should catch his act at least once...
...officials are now talking about the "legitimate interests" of the Palestinians, but major breakthroughs are still a long way off. Meanwhile the fedayeen organizations are likely to become even more unsettling in the Middle East -particularly by means of armed assaults-than they have been up till...
...Till it reconvenes, the Rothko trial will furnish the art world with endless speculation. But in the meantime two things seemed certain: the trial will drag on for months after the defense opens in August, and when all the legal costs are paid, there could be precious little left for either Rothko's children or the artists he wanted to help...
APART FROM showing that slave women generally had no children till they married (at an average age of 22.5), Fogel and Engerman present little positive statistical evidence for their position. Instead, they just ask some reasonable questions: wouldn't business motives and moral scruples combined be a strong enough combination to keep planters from tearing apart families when they didn't have to? Why wouldn't the rich owner of a large plantation just keep a mistress in town, where she wouldn't trouble his wife or his labor supply? Or, if masters were so sexually attracted by their slaves...