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President Browster of Yale: This is dreadful. We must resolve that one demented act shall not unhinge the good will, the stability, and the continuity essential to our nation's peace and progress. To this end we of course give President Johnson our full and prayerful support.
The fascination comes chiefly from Dorothy's letters and the excerpts from her diary; Lewis' letters are relatively short and humorously impersonal. Some of Dorothy's entries are almost embarrassingly intimate, such as the entry for Sept. 21, 1927, eight months before they were married. "A dreadful...
What Minh, like so many soldiers who had seized power in other nations, was looking for was a form of democracy within the discipline of war. Few doubted his intentions, but few forgot the paths of other soldier-leaders after the first pure bliss of revolution. "For a moment, imagine...
Elsa Maxwell could not live without friends: "All I want is love from the world, and that is what I give it." Or enemies: "I go hell-for-leather. People are terrified of me. I can say anything. Isn't that dreadful? I don't hate anyone. I...
Down with the Sparrows. The span of his creative life was incredibly brief. At 18, still apprenticed to the surgeon, he was barely able to imitate second-rate writers like Leigh Hunt, and was proud of such dreadful lines as "Ah God, she is like a milk white lamb that...