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...particular orbiting "ray guns" that would fire intense beams of energy at enemy missiles. Said Edward Teller, the father of the H-bomb and one of the plan's most enthusiastic advocates: "I don't see a sliver of an argument why we shouldn't bend all our will to develop protective weapons with all possible haste." Indeed, he says, "it may well be a turning point of history...
...that Nitze would contaminate the leaders along the way with his gloomy views. "Whoever Paul's been talking to over there," said Perle, "has got the poor man in a state of despair." Richard Burt was harsher: "Nitze's utterly spooked; he's gone around the bend; he's panicking; he's falling apart." To Nitze's face, Burt said, "Relax. The trouble will die down once we get over the hump at the end of the year...
Souvenirs of the team are for sale seemingly around every bend in Lincoln. Loraine Livingston, the sparky proprietor of Cornhusker Corner, insists there are only a few outlets worth speaking of, and furthermore, "the fellow in the filling station is from Oklahoma," and she fairly spits, "just a transit." Cornhusker Corner is open twelve months a year, seven days a week, serving to paint the town red. The huge, rouge crowd that assembles on Saturdays somehow seems older than one would expect. The mood suggests a state fair. Bobby Reynolds, an insurance man from Grand Island who played...
riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend...
...carefree existence beneath the waves to the vastly more complex and ominous vision in Strawberry Fields Forever of a retreat from uncertainty into a psychedelic copout. Its four separate meters, freewheeling modulations and titillating tonal trappings, showed that the Beatles had flowered as musicians. They learned to bend and stretch the pop-song mold, enriched their harmonic palette with modal colors, mixed in cross-rhythms, and pinched the classical devices of composers from Bach to Stockhausen. They supplemented their guitar sound with strings, baroque trumpets, even a calliope. With the help of their engineer, arranger and record producer, George Martin...