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the raucousness of democracy. Other the dissident movement cannot ever be All the President's Men readers will find oversimplifications, re- the same again. The major...
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...A country pastor be- (We are responsible, not some vague The second part, "The System: By dazzled by a seminar totes $300 worth "powerful minority" or "American ProWhose Authority?," presents three of "new theology" back to his rectory...
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...If, in reading it, we weep very large order, an ideal far off, in a This could be a dangerous book in but are not wounded, too bad for us...
...Later, Bradlee told an interviewer "leaks" from one source without con- he'd been "ready to hold both Woodsidering what motives the leaker might ward's and Bernstein's heads in a pail Classified have had for putting out the informa- of water until they came up with antion...
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...itsyn's belief that the Northeast can be But through that limp summer and developed by a truncated Russia alone, REVIEWERS fall of 1972, two men rang doorbells without foreign help, and by a village in the middle of the night, pored over structure with the low-level technology RICHARD M. MILLS teaches political financial records, wore their index finscience at Fordham University...
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...eled that story from the first fragmen9 August 1974: 436 tary clues in a burglar's address book dance of panic" in his stomach when plains why so very little of what the to the bombshell bursts of the follow- he realized that they had misinter- Post printed on Watergate proved ing spring...
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...Watergate and fastened instead on aborcommitment...
...I'll deny everything.' House reporters, diplomatic correspondwere not trying to write a history of "Woodward unfolded his copy of the ents, columnists in three-piece suits and Watergate...
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...Jack announced a program to develop agri- remain in the West what he was in the Nelson, Ron Ostrow and Bob Jackson culture in the R.S.F.S.R...
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...I find it increasingly difficult to find anything Civil liberties would surely be better protected by a Democratic Ad- of my own experience in others' memoministration, and Supreme Court nominations would be different...
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...The Letter has raised some funtions of the addressees of the Letter damental and sensitive questions, dis- How quickly we have forgotten that might be, the Soviet leaders...
...At several cussion of which evokes strong emo- numbing season, that soporific summer junctures in its Solzhenitsyn remarks tions and disagreements among both and fall of 1972 when we all fell asleep...
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...three-piece minds who treated the White of a story, the kind of yarn that re- They didn't want to get anyone in House with deference bordering on porters tell each other in their favorite trouble, he said...
...The Letter can be considered as a This book is the story of how Bob contribution to the dissident critique RALPH MCINERNY teaches in the philos- Woodward and Carl Bernstein-now ophy department at the University of known widely as "Woodstein"-unravof Soviet politics...
...Item: other with effecting public consequences, hatred, prejudice and suspicion of neighpriests do not drop whatever irrelevan- whose self thereby becomes scattered bor is endemic...
...Anger turned to anguish CHURCH MUSICIANS...
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...priests and a bishop who have col- The swishier aspects of the liturgy are HENRY H. BROER lisions with their superiors...
...Religious, The book's best moments stem less bach, the President's personal attorney Xmas, Vatican City stamps...
...The bad old days would probably continue the Kissinger line toward China and Russia, be seems a more bogus simplification than more solicitous of Europe and Japan, and shift slightly to the left in the good old days...
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...It would be an unfortunate But surely it is a libel on the clergy error to slip from a recognition of this state of disarray to the conclusion that the Democrats have nothing different to offer...
...In the end it does not seem to be just wonder what in the devil the assistant Whatever its intent, that is the plea of a matter of sex or semantics but just a is up to...
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...What we want is was reminded of some historical facts the real world, the abiding finitude of some inchoate thirst for sanctity, an that he seems to have forgotten...
...It is unlikely that Solzhenitsyn has asked a very old air brush from memory those languid the leaders would entertain the .thought question in the history of political days when CHEEP feinted us out of of abandoning the ideology which may thought-what is the best form of gov- our shoes, when the White House wove push them toward overcommitment on ernment...
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...JUDITH M. gers raw with phone calls to a lengthhe envisages as necessary to avoid eco- MILLS teaches Russian at Fordham...
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...Whether the Democrats would actually effect anything significant in assistance for developing Of course Wilkes is entitled to his nations or in reduction of the arms budget is anybody's guess...
...Clearly the bulk of the clergy remains in place...
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