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Cities in the Sea. In these talks, and in long hours with his friends, Bucky spins off a constant stream of ideas. The project nearest and dearest to his heart these days is the worldwide inventory of the globe's resources. Bucky views this as a matter of war or peace. Says a friend: "Bucky sees the population explosion, man's myths and antagonisms as foretelling a possible new deluge. If resources are not utilized according to Fuller principles of 'comprehensive design,' and therefore become scarce, men will begin to club each other to death...
...King mystique. Yet he has an indescribable capacity for empathy that is the touchstone of leadership. By deed and by preachment, he has stirred in his people a Christian forbearance that nourishes hope and smothers injustice. Says Atlanta's Negro Minister Ralph D. Abernathy, whom King calls "my dearest friend and cellmate": "The people make Dr. King great. He articulates the longings, the hopes, the aspirations of his people in a most earnest and profound manner. He is a humble man, down to earth, honest. He has proved his commitment to Judaeo-Christian ideals. He seeks to save...
...DEAREST EMMIE' by Carl J. Weber. 111 pages. St Martin's Press...
Death on Contact. Yet the letters, without intending to, reveal things about the unhappy marriage. The tone becomes more strained, and "My dearest" gives way to "My dear" in 1893, following Hardy's meeting with the young Mrs. Arthur Henniker, who made the aging Hardy feel, in his own phrase, "a time-torn man" and came close to rupturing his marriage. The letters are full of mild, passing references to Emma's erratic behavior-her abrupt cancellation of a garden party without informing the guests, her abrupt departure for Calais without informing her husband. And continually there...
...weight, Dunne snapped: "Yes, my fat goes under my belt, but yours goes under your hat." At the 1916 Republican Convention, writes Dunne, "Henry Cabot Lodge would have given an eye for the nomination. Or perhaps that is going too far. Let us say he would have sacrificed his dearest friend for the honor...