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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Times written before Douglas hired him, Rifkind opened Douglas' defense by taking sharp issue with Gerald Ford's contention that "an impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history." According Rifkind, Ford's view would mean that federal judges hold office at the pleasure of the Congress." That idea said Rifkind, is "subversive of the independence of the judiciary...
...drama critic what qualifies him for his post. The charitable popular assumption seems to be that this chap once tacked up scenery in summer stock, or directed a college play, or was summarily reassigned from the sports section of his publication during an acute journalistic drought. The less charitable view is that the fellow is a failed playwright who plumps into his opening-night seat on the aisle palsied with envy and gurgling with bile. Percy Hammond, a formidable drama critic of vinegary wit, once gave a simpler answer: "Because I get paid...
Economy and Tact. As case history, Ariana's problem is not uncommon. She is unable to choose happiness over despair because her will has been paralyzed. In Wheelis' view, the cause is not only Craig's outrages but the subtly pervasive spirit of the age. Behaviorists, technophiles and their parrots in the social sciences have overemphasized the lock step of instinct at the expense of free will. For many people, the result is a form of fatalism that destroys belief in the possibility of change...
...Freud. Binswanger gently argued that the undefinable human spirit is as powerful a drive as instinct-if indeed the two theoretical categories can be separated in practice at all. Fusing spirit and instinct, theory and fiction, Wheelis' risky work gives a unique life to Binswanger's philosophical view...
...sense of history, Fuller is an old man in a hurry. No idea interests him for more than a historical instant. He begins-and stays-far aloft, in a jet's-eye view of a world where the fastest vehicle appears to crawl. From this vantage point he views the phenomenon of U.S. industrialization. He divides industrial growth into three "telescoping" periods: 1850 to 1890, 1890 to 1920, 1920 to 1940. Each, he notes, was shorter than its precedent; each contained part of its successor. Yet from the beginning "people thought of changes as normal adjuncts to an agricultural...