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...particularly puzzling feature of Speer's experience in prison is his religious evolution. He attended church service every Sunday, read theology, and talked occasionally with the chaplain. On reading the remark, "It is a precious thing to be patient and to hope for the help of the Lord," Speer observes somewhat scornfully, "Silly, to take any stock in that." But he seldoms mentions religious matters, much less his own spirituality. Then suddenly, in 1962, he writes simply, "I believe in a divine providence; I also believe in God's wisdom and goodness; I trust in his ways." What brought about...
...energy level and spent days resting himself for his big events. While Henry Kissinger insists that Nixon's lack of stamina never interfered with his decision making, others are not so sure. In Nixon's last year in office, the pressures of Watergate robbed him of his precious sleep, and we learn more and more about his fantasying to startled Congressmen over his ability to start a nuclear war within minutes...
...auctioneer with the suave, hypnotic ease of a political campaigner. Settling into the little New Hampshire town of Harlowe, he begins his auctions with a benefit for the one-man police force. But he is not in town for charitable purposes. Before long, the townspeople's most precious possessions-including, eventually, children-fall under Dunsmore's hammer. Wisps of evil drift through the book, perceived through the eyes of the Moores, a proud old farming family. "You'll pay worse if you try to say no," warns Mim Moore. "Somebody-some head guy somewhere's bound...
...Mouse God Multiple, a stack of geometric mice becomes a temple. Oldenburg jots down a progression on the drawings: "ziggurat/-pyramid/mouse". The mouse is real architecture too--it was used as a blueprint for a Maus Museum, erected in 1972 to house a collection of Oldenburg's objects, the precious common things that provide springboards for his imagination...
...Bell peers into the future, the more he seems to respect the past. It would be hard to find anyone more at home in such a variety of contemporary disciplines-economics, politics, the arts, popular culture. Yet Bell is not happy with the trends in any of them. Something precious has gone out of life, he feels. The deficiency makes people harsher, more inward, more aggrandizing. Bell yearns for a restoration of civitas: "The spontaneous willingness to obey the law, to respect the rights of others, to forgo the temptations of private enrichment at the expense of the public weal...