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Kubrick's Lolita, with James Mason, Friday and Saturday, March...
Georgy Girl, with Lynn Redgrave, Alan Bates, and James Mason, Saturday, March...
...York Chamber Soloists. Tickets: free from Peabody-Mason Foundation, Box 153, Back Bay Annex, Boston 02117. Wednesday, March...
...Dave Mason. Traffic and Delaney & Bonnie are the two best-known groups to which Dave Mason has lent his guitar-playing talents. He takes center stage himself Saturday, March 2, at the Orpheum Theater...
Treason and bribery, it was readily agreed during the debate on the Constitution, would be obvious grounds for impeaching a President. What else? "Abusing his power," Edmund Randolph of Virginia suggested. James Madison favored protection against "incapacity, negligence or perfidy in the chief magistrate." But when George Mason proposed adding "maladministration" to treason and bribery, Madison thought the word "so vague as to be equivalent to a tenure during the pleasure of the Senate." Borrowing a catchall phrase from English usage, Mason thereupon substituted "high crimes and misdemeanors." Without debate, this curious phrase, which has bedeviled political discourse ever since...