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...FOLKWAYS COLLECTION, with more volumes to come, is a pretty thorough examination of the entire Watergate nexus of corruption. It contains no narrative, just straight excerpting from the available testimony; for the most part the excerpts stick to the highlights. There are even some funny lines: Bernard Barkers paraphrases Tennyson's "Ours is Not to Question Why..." somber-voiced James McCord replies to Ervin's question about what Mitchell called him. "Before or after the Break-in?" Folkways also includes one Nixon speech, his Watergate Address of April...
...nexus of language and politics was recognized years ago, of course, when in "Politics and the English Language" George Orwell analyzed the way in which the abstract, leaden prose in England had dulled readers' capacity for independent thought. Writing immediately after World War II, when he saw writers increasingly give themselves over to the dogmas of newly-potent ideologies, Orwell wrote that "if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. "The use of tired metaphors, excess words, Latinate nouns, meaningless, bombastic phrases--all led to a "reduced state of consciousness," which was "favorable to political conformity." Only by using...
...agonizing extent, their fortunes are tied to the fate of the junta which they are convinced has not yet fully been "dismantled" in the homeland. The CIA-junta nexus still exists, they say, and the consulate, with its paternalist attention to their activities in Cambridge, is still linked with the secret police network in Greece. And so some members of the association receive mail from abroad at American friends' names and addresses, in the fear that correspondence is examined...
...nexus between art and money, then, is not new. But the pervasiveness of this relationship and the intensity of money-worship in the art world certainly is. There was a time-and it is not so long ago, say ten years -when one could with perfect ease walk into the Met, the Wallace Collection or the Museum of Modern Art and spend a day communing with paintings without once reflecting on how much they might have cost or what they were now likely to fetch. But given the relentless publicity about art prices and auction triumphs-even when one knows...
Robert Griffin, a GSA special administrator, visited Cambridge and met with officials from Maguire, the city and Harvard to "open up the relationship" with the new participant in the controversy--Maguire--and the nexus of organizations involved with the project...