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...August 1915, a Catholic priest serving as a lowly stretcher-bearer with a French infantry regiment was cited for displaying "the greatest self-sacrifice and contempt for danger" during a ruinous battle. But there is no mention of the honor in the cheap school notebook in which, during the same week, the priest began keeping a diary "to force myself to think, to observe, to be precise...
Calling President Ford "at best a gun-bearer in the parasitic structure, leading the nation with ox-like profoundity," Baraka labeled Vice President Rockefeller the "general" of capitalists and a member of the "royalty of thieves...
...accomplished this with a swing that Nicklaus and other pros admire as "the soundest on the tour." (As a teen-age caddy, Miller spent more time practicing his swing than following the customer's ball, and earned a reputation as a poor bag bearer.) His iron play is phenomenal, time and again delivering the ball stiff to the pin, and he putts with the boldness and confidence that once distinguished the play of a not yet forgotten superstar-Arnold Palmer...
...exclusively on specific means to counter the worst economic slump since the Great Depression, the nation's almost 14% rate of inflation and the U.S.'s dangerous dependence on cartel-controlled foreign oil. Displaying the blunt candor that is his most politically attractive quality, the President proclaimed himself the bearer of "bad news," declared flatly that "the State of the Union is not good," and announced that he did not expect "much if any applause."* Then he unfurled an economic and energy program of considerable scope, great complexity and huge risk...
...pseudonym, as are almost all the proper names in the book. The privacy of relatives and survivors (Shaw died in 1973) remains intact. Tukabahchee County, Ala., is as fictive as Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha -and, where it really matters, as real. For Nate Shaw was a formidable bearer of memories. Illiterate, denied even the semblance of an education, he had nowhere to file the details of his life but in his head. Once dropped, the baggage of the past is lost forever. So Shaw held on to everything...