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Nothing in that diary is more moving than the record of Strong's slowly changing attitude toward Lincoln. At first, he mistrusted a presidential candidate whose main claim to office seemed "the fact that he split rails when he was a boy." Later he ranted against the evacuation of Fort Sumter: "The bird of our country is a debilitated chicken, disguised in eagle feathers." But once the war began in earnest, he was quick to sense Lincoln's rare qualities and wrote of him with affection...
...their families who had been vacationing in Britain. Fifteen miles off the coast of Sicily, the pilot shot up a red distress flare: the plane had developed engine trouble. The craft, a Hermes, crashed into the sea three miles offshore. As it hit the water, the great plane split in half. Then what seemed like a miracle occurred...
...next morning, restless Cairo buzzed. Had the split come between the army and its chosen politician? Had Naguib now decided to abandon his nonpolitical "simple soldier" role and to rule in fact instead of by proxy? Emissaries from Egypt's most powerful party, the corrupt Wafd, rushed to Aly's side offering their support should he decide to stand up to the army. But though annoyed by Naguib's counter-proclamation, Aly snapped no and went into conference with the general who later announced that a special committee would synchronize army and government policies...
...style all her own, as distinguishable as searchlights at a Hollywood premiere. She has a real talent for using a cliche in precisely the right place, she never avoids phrases like "the reason is because" unless it is impossible not to do so, and she likes her infinitives split. Louella is aware of these oddities and will talk about them frankly, explaining that she types so badly that it is difficult to read what she has written, and when she dictates, she does so at a terrific pace. The result is a chatty, intimate, informal, verbose and, on the whole...
...pioneers who staked out the new boundaries of modern literature were Novelists Feodor Dostoevsky and Franz Kafka. Dostoevsky made a pre-Freudian exploration of the grand canyon that separates a man's public acts from his private thoughts-the split in the human atom. But in Dostoevsky's day the social frame within which his split men operated was still all of a piece, held together by principles of law & order and morality. By the time Kafka came on the scene, early in the 20th century, the frame itself was split. The rules and principles of Dostoevsky...