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...forced viewers to suffer through most of the same old distortions and deceptions (along with some new ones) on the now tedious details of the criminal cover-up in his White House. But then, for some 25 emotional minutes at the end of the broadcast, the nation got its first-and, it could hope, last-glimpse into the anguish and genuine regrets of a once proud man admitting he had "let the American people down...
...could hang on with the varisty, go to the practices (which he did once a week), play in the J.V. games and then warm the bench on Saturday. Except that at the practices, he would have to play on the "scout" teams and be a bagholder for the first-and second-stringers, a job he terms "depressing. It seems you can get cheerleaders to do that...
...postwar immigrants in particular are bitter about the oppression of Communism, and they are inclined to regard their homelands with much the same fervor that American Jews feel for Israel. While people now living in Eastern Europe have generally made their accommodation with the regimes, the immigrants-and many first-and second-generation Americans - remain unalterably opposed to Communism and await, however forlornly, its overthrow...
Laconic Anticlimax. Her moment of truth with HUAC forms the heart of this slim memoir, Hellman's first-and long-anticipated-public word on her brush with McCarthyism. Two earlier autobiographical volumes, An Unfinished Woman (1969) and Pentimento (1973), ignored this subject. Yet when the crucial scene in Scoundrel Time comes, it is a laconic anticlimax. The committee seems flummoxed by Hellman's strategy. When the chairman asks that her letter be read into the public record, Hellman's lawyers leap to distribute copies to the assembled reporters. Minutes later a voice is heard in the press...
...sailing teams split tacks in regattas this weekend as Radcliffe recorded a first-and Harvard a fourth-place finish...