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ISOLATION comes in these stories from being a social misfit, or from being caught in the conflict between new ways and old beliefs, prejudices and fears, the battle between rationality and mysticism, the widening gap between generations. In "My Son the Murderer," a father becomes obsessed with the conduct of...
Back in Washington, Kissinger found his negotiations overshadowed by a problem of grave personal concern. The disclosure that he had acquiesced in the 1969 bugging of some of his own aides had dragged his name into the widening Watergate mess and threatened to undermine both his credibility and his ability...
Widening Whirlpool. Next, it became clear through testimony from Lieut. General Vernon Walters, deputy director of the CIA, that White House advisers had tried to persuade the CIA to take the rap for Watergate or at least provide an excuse that would keep the FBI from thoroughly investigating one of...
The Widening Watergate
One fragment of a story does concentrate on the perils caused by widening a highway by a small town, but the subject there is arbitrariness, not tension; another makes some peripheral play about in-flight motion pictures. But because Cheever and his creations are mainly so tradition-bound, his chronicles...