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Since Adams' back door victory, no election has been decided in the House, and as John Anderson's dreams crumble, it seems unlikely that a deadlock will arise this year. Undaunted, constitutional trivia buffs will doubtless spend much of Tuesday arguing about the dusty regulations governing a deadlock Electoral College and about such prospects as a Walter Mondale Acting Presidency...
This is not to say that Johnson's interviews and bits of gossip are not interesting as isolated bits of historical trivia; many are funny and revealing. But strung together they provide only a fragmented and incomplete view of Johnson's life. At their best these anecdotes do provide insight--but less about Johnson than about the individual being interviewed...
...rain continued. 2:15 passed, and then 3:15 and 4:15. The scoreboard amused the faithful with an Expos trivia quiz ("Non. c'est Mack Jones"). Rogers and Christenson...
That millions of Americans can be mesmerized by such trivia as Dallas only proves that the average American seeks excitement by means of the tube, rather than by making an effort to raise his life out of the rut of bland mediocrity...
Building on these facts, Krotkov has strained for verisimilitude. There are knowing touches of trivia: a mention of the poet's favorite felt slippers, the real names of his dogs. Bits of Pasternak's works and quotes from the Soviet campaign against him are cited with precision. Only the essence of the book is false. Krotkov's defection from the U.S.S.R. seems hardly to have been for ideological reasons, nor does he sympathize with the poet's struggles. For his portrait of Pasternak immeasurably coarsens him while it diminishes his martyrdom. In addition, it has reduced...