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...stories already under way. Occasionally, some of us get a chance to go beyond weekly news concerns and discuss long-range issues and new ideas with academicians and other intellectuals. In May 1971 several Time Inc. editors, writers and correspondents were the beneficiaries of a thoughtful two-day colloquy at the University of Chicago; equally provocative was a series of informal meetings in the fall of 1972 with thinkers in Los Angeles. This month 19 top editorial Time Inc. staffers met in the library of the Harvard Faculty Club in Cambridge, Mass., with scholars in several disciplines. The purpose...
...Arthur Schlesinger, 55, City University of New York historian and author of the forthcoming The Imperial Presidency and one-time aide to President Kennedy. The moderator was TIME Correspondent James Simon, himself the author of a recent book on the Nixon court, In His Own Image. Excerpts from the colloquy...
Quite apart from that colloquy, Ehrlichman ran into a buzz saw of committee questions when he claimed that 1) he had not authorized the burglary, 2) it was necessary because FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had resisted an effective probe of Ellsberg out of friendship for Louis Marx, the wealthy father of Ellsberg's wife, and 3) "foreign intelligence" was involved in the Ellsberg case because copies of the Pentagon papers had been given to the Soviet embassy. Ehrlichman was on thin ground on all three points...
...towards the end, is the single instance where its three main participants show a full feeling for the melody and rhythm of their lines as well as the sense. Praise, then, for Michael Levin's Macduff, Alvah Stanley's Ross, and, above all, Philip Kerr's Malcolm. In this colloquy these three men talk to each other, listen to each other, and demonstrate their musicality. But it is a long, long time before we get to this beautifully spoken scene...
...Germany's Daimler-Benz, expressed as well as any the sense of an unusual meeting in Brussels this month. Nearly 40 chief executives of leading European and American business and banking firms assembled in the Common Market's headquarters city, under the auspices of TIME, for a colloquy on their common concerns...