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...political warfare raging in Washington under the name Watergate, there have been some startling shifts of viewpoint. Conservative Sage Barry Goldwater produced one of the first surprises when he turned against Richard Nixon and declared that the Watergate mess "smells." Goldwater was wryly saluted by Columnist William Safire, a former Nixon speechwriter, as "the liberals' favorite conservative." Not so. J. Edgar Hoover now looks upright and independent by comparison to L. Patrick Gray III. Even Vice President Agnew inspired the Washington Post to contemplate the prospect of a Nixon retirement and observe that his successor might...
...prime element is that they suggest a simpler world." Exactly so. To keep it that way, the authors rigorously suppress untidy complexity. Mrs. Uhnak's novel ends in a hasty melodramatic knitting of loose strands. Maas' reportage resolutely refuses to go beyond Serpico's own viewpoint. Whittemore is worst of all, portraying his heroes without a fleck of imperfection. They burst into pushers' apartments but somehow never violate any constitutional rights. They slay two big-time drug suppliers, but the regrettable bloodletting really happens because other cops fail to back them up properly. They manage...
...article in the April issue of Commentary, Herrnstein rebuts those who have charged that his theories are racist and defends his original viewpoint, while offering description and thinly-veiled criticism of the reaction and tactics of radicals and academic colleagues...
...with the United States was a primary factor in her persistent balance of payments difficulties prior to 1964, Japan frequently requested that the U.S. take necessary measures to correct the imbalance. The U.S. always replied that the imbalance could only be considered from a unilateral and not a bilateral viewpoint. Who would think that that could have been the attitude of a country which is now trying to force another nation to immediately rectify their trade problem on a bilateral basis...
...Plumb is on much more familiar ground most of the time, and the diversity of topics he can discuss knowledgably is astounding. The essay on the British response to the American Revolution provides an unusual viewpoint on an often-studied subject. Plumb also writes with authority on clothes, riots and other historical things common to all times but taking a different coloration in each...