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...This seems to be the most serious scandal in our government," Weaver said. "I am disappointed to see this turn out to be true." Weaver said he is "prepared to believe that Nixon is not guilty," but added, "we may never know if, or how much, he was involved...
...Paul H. Weaver, assistant professor of Government and a supporter of Nixon last November, yesterday called Watergate a "damned outrage" and said that the scandal "has the potential of leading to the end of Nixon's presidency...
...subservient to circumstance. An inning may last six pitches or 80 minutes. Official games have gone 4½ innings, and 26. That timelessness is at once the game's curse and its glory. At the conclusion of his disastrous World Series with the Mets, Baltimore Manager Earl Weaver philosophized, "You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the goddam plate and give the other man his chance." Then he paused and concluded: "That's why baseball...
...were, the question of art and its influence is assuming rather large proportions. Virtually nobody agrees any longer (if anyone ever really did) with the dictum of the late Jimmy Walker to the effect that no girl was ever ruined by a book. If ideas have consequences, as Richard Weaver believed, movies and television have a capacity to influence the social order for good or ill that could hardly be underestimated, and at least in recent years rarely has been...
...Exterminating Angel, Luis Bunuel, master of perverse magic and weaver of surreal spells, conjured up a dinner party that no one could leave. The guests were prisoners, not of the hosts or even of the house itself, but of each other, trapped by their own free will-victims, finally, of their own fantasies. It was a furious, scalding film, one of Bunuel's darkest and most unsparing...