Word: written
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...requested such a machine and then used it so sporadically is unclear. He did like to keep written synopses of most Oval Office meetings; but he almost always either had an assistant take notes or dictated his recollections afterward. Whitman, who transcribed many of the tapes, points to the machine's deficiencies. After typing the first summary in 1953, she typed at the bottom that ''large portions of the tape were completely garbled.'' Five years later, when Queen Frederika visited the Oval Office, the recorder was still not cooperating: the transcript simply notes that...
...persistently, ''Is it right? Is it fair?'' Burger is more tentative. Some of his colleagues wonder whether he is always adequately prepared for conference; when he states the issues, he sometimes seems to be reading them for the first time from a memo written by his clerks...
Most sources agree that Burger has been found lacking on both counts. A Justice's written opinion is his most effective tool of persuasion. ''Votes change in the writing perhaps more often than in conference,'' says Justice Byron R. White. Yet Burger's colleagues find that drafts of his opinions often carry mistakes or gaps of logic; of the final product, Stanford Constitutional Expert Gerald Gunther says, ''Only in rare opinions do you get a carefully thought-out, well-developed argument...
...inevitably meant that more intricate statutes need legal interpretation. Thus the court faces a growing work load. ''There are just more hard and more deserving cases than there used to be,'' says White. To day the court hands down more than half again as many written opinions as it did 25 years ago, and at term's end, the Justices often find ''themselves rushing to finish their drafts. Says Powell: "The pressure of time prevents us from going from chamber to chamber to work things out. The lack of opportunity for collegiality diminishes...
...Written as a novel in 1946, Beckett's Mercier and Camier is stillborn in its transition to drama at Joseph Papp's Green wich Village Public Theater. One can understand what impelled Adapter Neumann's strenuous and occasionally imaginative effort, since the book was, essentially, Waiting for Godot in its earliest and distinctly embryonic state. The two title characters (Frederick Neumann and Bill Raymond) are as close as barstool buddies, and they stumble and blather about in a bleak inscape of metaphysical despair. Despite intermittent japery, they are triste, petulant atheists who resent the fact that they...