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...addition, the general narrative through which departments are introduced to the reader should be checked with a representative of the department under discussion in order to eliminate factual inaccuracies. For example, the final three paragraphs in this year's discussion of the Philosophy Department have been lifted verbatim from last year's Guide. The first two of those paragraphs were inaccurate last year, and the passage of time has only compounded that inaccuracy. A Philosophy Department representative could have pointed out that tutorials in philosophy now deal entirely with historical texts and that the Department now has two survey courses...
...pardon Nixon before any charges had been brought against him, aides said that he was simply unaware he had the power to pardon before indictment, trial and conviction. Just two days later, on Aug. 30, he asked Buchen to study that question. Buchen quickly discovered, as any reader of informed legal speculation in newspaper accounts at the time had also learned, that Presidents had exerted such power in the past. According to this explanation, Ford had also been in formed that Jaworski was about to in dict Nixon for a whole series of crimes. Since there was doubt that...
...worth putting more time into the manuscript," says Lindsay's agent, Owen Laster, who is showing the book to New York publishers. Evidently the ex-mayor has a deft touch when it comes to mixing passion and politics. "There's a nice massage scene," reports one reader of Lindsay's draft...
...details amassed are awesome. The reader will learn that streetcars in Arnhem were pale yellow; that Lieut. General Frederick Browning, deputy commander of the First Allied Airborne Army (and husband of Novelist Daphne du Maurier), wore spotless gray kid gloves and sat on an empty beer crate as his glider took him into battle. Nor does Ryan fail to mention the name of the beer (Worthington)-just as he identifies the typewriter (Olivetti) being tapped by a then U.P. correspondent named Walter Cronkite. Random, trivial, even compulsive, Ryan's facts eventually justify themselves as a fragmented tableau of that...
...purpose of a writer like me," Michener explains in a separately printed booklet about Centennial, "is to create a universe." The reader is warned. "Three billion, six hundred million years ago," Michener begins, "the crust had formed, and the cooling earth lay exposed to the developing atmosphere." The next 110 pages are taken up with discourses on magma and glaciers, the planet's prehistoric upheavals. Then come the prehistoric beasts, which the author vaguely anthropomorphizes: a lovely Diplodocus wandering in the muck "toward dusk on a spring evening one hundred and thirty-six million years ago" finds herself growing...