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Andrews' character grows as each witness adds anecdote or insight. His boyhood hockey coach remembers him as a superb athlete who once said, "When I try my best I always seem to hurt someone." His pastor proves that John learned early when to bow to expediency. At school he earned every honor, but may also have planned the burning of a dormitory so he could be a hero by saving his sleeping classmates...
...Gesualdo labored to fill. There are no grand gestures in this music, nothing simple for the listener or the performer to grab onto. If I Dilettanti Nuovi failed to provide the kind of pure sustained sound that can make the Byrd Mass compelling, their performance revealed a welcome insight into this work's majesty and depth...
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...midst of all this verbiage comes a strikingly down-to-earth quotation from Italian author Danilo Dolci: It's important to understand that words don't move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains." Words and Their Masters isn't likely to budge the Himalayas, but it does provide some insight into the major literary minds of the day. Besides, it doesn't take itself too seriously, and it's a pleasure to read. Shenker has proved himself a minor master of words in his own right...
...Harry Truman who emerges from this book is an honest, well-intentioned, intelligent man with a great deal of insight into human character. Although somewhat limited by his background, as his continued references to "niggers" indicate, he had a solid progressive outlook on politics and on society. After learning in the past year of the way the executive branch has operated under President Nixon since 1969, it is a relief to read these interviews with Harry Truman--a down-to-earth man who did not get carried away by the grandeur and power of his office...