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Written in the final four years of his life, the pieces do show some stiffness and shortness of breath. Devils does not have the force of posthumous revelation that can be expected from his diaries and journals, which will start pouring forth early next year. Yet the book is a reminder that Wilson, even falling off, wrote at a level that few critics ever reach...
...submission vis-a-vis the world breeds a guilt for any form of success achieved in that world. I would go to bed each night with a knot in my gut, sick with the pressure of having to sin the next day. Winning itself was rarely more than a breath-catcher en route to new pressures and more anxiety. I had wrought winning into an ultimatum whose fulfillment made me guilty not just because the life style put a premium on success, but because I had been educated to feel that independent success was meant for men. For women...
...recognize there's quite a gap between the new figure for San Clemente and the figures we gave you before. But we were giving out information piecemeal before, and now we have a very thorough search of the record." Thorough, indeed. The GSA also announced in the same breath that $626,201 in tax money had been spent for equipment and improvements at Nixon's home at Key Biscayne...
...where the greatest luxury is a running brook. The basic urge of the true camper is to escape from chlorine, color TV and asphalt. The climb up Mount Horrid is an excellent baptism. In six-tenths of a mile, the trail rises sharply 600 ft. We were out of breath halfway up, and I thought my heart was about to pound out of my chest. At 2,800 ft., the trail levels off on a rocky perch called Mount Horrid Cliff. The rock wall drops straight down 500 ft. When the sky cleared, we could see the Adirondacks 50 miles...
When you mention Cambridge and crew in the same breath, people usually respond with "Harvard, Harry Parker, Newell Boat House." It's been that way ever since Parker first hung his hat next to the ergometer across the Charles eleven years...