Word: blotter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like an ink blot spreading relentlessly across a clean blotter, Harvard may well continue to spread into and dominate Cambridge--or so city officials fear, in the wake of a new University loan program which offers low-interest, long-term mortgage terms to tenured faculty members buying nearby housing...
...That may be understandable, but the problem is that the major characters are so well-known that the pseudonyms become a real distraction, an annoying reminder to the reader that he actually went out and spent good money on a book with all the dramatic intensity of a police blotter and nowhere near the imagaination of the fairy-tale writers on the Post reporting corps. As for the minor characters--well, they're pretty recognizable, too. Like the announcer says, the names have been changed, but not the ethnicities...
...does he launch into a wild defensive screed of self-justification. Again, he seems to be trying to make everything he did seem ordinary, and even to make the context of his decisions similarly mundane. The mobilization of America's youth against his policies is presented like a police blotter--"In the academic year 1969-70 there were 1800 demonstrations, 7500 arrests, 462 injuries--two-thirds of them to police--and 247 arsons and eight deaths." Numbers do not recall well, for me at least, the spirit of those years. Nor does Nixon's awareness of the tragedy being played...
...read Breslin you won't have to keep referring to those plump who-said-what-to-whom-and-when volumes by the various reporters. Like CarlBobRobertDustin's From the Police Blotter To Fame and Fortune in 14,781 Easy Steps. Or J. Anthony Lukas's Nightmare, his "Help me I think I'm falling in love with you" paean to the scandal that provided him three good years of upper-middle tax-bracket living. Or Teddy White's Breach of Faith, an act of penance for his canonization of Nixon...
...acid, which comes in many forms, from "windowpane" (very strong) to blotter (weaker). Blotter acid is simply a small piece of paper which has been soaked in the liquid hallucinogen...