Word: walks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interviews last spring, emphasizes the "humanitarian" calculations that entered into the President's decision to embark on the coverup. In retrospect, he says, it becomes easy to think that immediately after the events of June 17, 1972, Nixon should have said "O.K., let's get the truth out, everybody walk the plank." "There wouldn't have been much damage," Price says, "even if John Mitchell were involved. On the other hand, in human terms, I doubt if he could have done that." Price adds that he feels certain that Nixon would have won re-election, even if he had immediately...
...insanity. They are too sick to be tragic, but they are normal enough for us to recognize ourselves in them. The heroine of "The Snowstorm," for example, is a young woman named Claire who despises all personal attachments. When her car gets stuck in a blizzard, she chooses to walk home through the storm rather than appeal to anyone for help. Such isolation is intrinsically neither sick nor ugly. If Claire were a real person, we might guess that she had been hurt in love and was afraid of getting hurt again. If she were a character in a Swedish...
More than one-fourth of U.S. murders are family affairs, and the courts have never been particularly tough on defendants who act in the heat of a domestic quarrel. In recent weeks, however, an array of women have managed to walk away unpunished after killing their husbands or even former husbands...
...decorations receive the homage of subservient anniversaries. Men reduced to street names meet on this square." Yet when he recounts his surreal dreams, the narrator sometimes seems to be giving an unconscious impression of Woody Allen: "A man with a sack stands in the doorway, and when I walk up the stairs he grabs my ankle and stuffs me into his sack. He sits on my mouth all the way home and later, sitting by his stove, eats hot noodles from my naked belly." Still, such moments are well worth enduring for the author's stern intelligence and overriding...
...actually psyched to walk up four flights of stairs and watch a Harvard basketball game in the rinky-dink Indoor Athletic Building...