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...reader's first impression might be that The Canfield Decision was acquired during a break-in at Allen Drury's apartment. But in fact Spiro Agnew writes better-if, as he insists, "I have unequivocally written all the novel myself." He has even offered $25,000 to New York Post Columnist Harriet Van Home if she can prove her suspicion that he did not write the book. In any event, the novel's action-which includes brutal multiple murders and an anticlimactic missile crisis-has less energy than the rancorous opinions that stream from the mouths...
...would now like to add that the recommendation for a late award of the degree was based on evidence of subsequent satisfactory clinical performance.) I specifically asked the reporters from The New York Times and from The Crimson not to identify Harvard Medical School in this connection. A reader of my article could, of course, make a reasonable guess-- but I hope there is still a place for tact in discussing such issues. The Times honored my request; The Crimson did not. I apologize to the administration of Harvard Medical School for the result of my indiscretion...
...first notions about dance reviewing came from a lecture by Deborah Jowitt, dance critic for The Village Voice. She stressed that the critic's responsibility is not to make value judgements but rather to describe the dance event, to recreate the experience for the reader. Her view relieves the critic of the onus of setting himself up as a judge--but is it playing chicken...
...trade on in The Final Days (TIME, March 29). The result is a massive, careful encyclopedia that sorts out all existing Nixon-era evidence-the tapes, hearings. Justice Department documents, civil-suit depositions, newspaper and magazine accounts-and puts them in order for the final judgment of a dispassionate reader, or of history itself. The Lukas index alone runs to 45 pages. In short, the one book to have if you're having only...
...take the money and run. Against all the nudgings of reason, they insist on plunging once more. The critical risk is great, of course-reviewers and remaindered colleagues are poised to carp. Yet the built-in publicity is there waiting for them, and with it, perhaps, the long-suffering reader...