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...asked for Kissinger's cooperation in the author's research. Sheehan thought he was "laying it on a little thick," but sent the letter anyway. Atherton showed it to Kissinger, who told him to help Sheehan. Atherton preserved the fiction of not disseminating classified documents by reading aloud to Sheehan from secret memos of Kissinger's conversations. Sheehan was allowed to take notes. He later talked to many of the same Middle East leaders to confirm and flesh out the secret reports that he had heard from Atherton...
...mother Nina was the daughter of Oklahoma Senator Thomas Pryor Gore, a fiery Populist-Democrat who had been completely blind from the age of eleven. Vidal spent much time in his grandfather's home in Washington's Rock Creek Park. The boy read aloud to the Senator (constitutional history, British common law, the Congressional Record) and guided him around Washington. A book-crammed attic also gave Vidal a place to hide from growing tensions at home. A childhood friend from these years remembers Vidal's father as "quiet" and his mother as "so self-centered I cannot...
Adele reads aloud from her diaries, and in her diaries creates a fantasy-world in which her love is fulfilled. It was the publishing of these long-forgotten diaries that gave Truffaut the material for this film. For Adele's fate is not that of an ordinary woman--her problems are compounded (and at least partly caused) by her status as the only surviving daughter of Victor Hugo, who enjoyed during his lifetime a world wide reputation as the greatest living poet and champion of liberty. The scene in which Adele's Canadian doctor and her landlady first discover...
...argue, as I do, that they had stumbled upon a fault-line in Harvard's humanism. Every encounter here became colored by the fact that the privileged structural realities of a "Harvard education" contradict its teachings. Donald Fleming was more candid than many of his colleagues when he wondered aloud how students could ever have expected that exciting things would transpire during their appointments with professors (Crimson, Spring, 1975). For the sad fact is that, while teaching and learning in a humane community ought to be an encounter of whole persons, this place serves powers whose consolidation is inimical...
...handing out their usual holiday food baskets to the poor would not make a dent in local hardship; unemployment in the parish runs to 30%. So the kids sent 800 letters to Chicago businessmen, asking them to put the unemployed to work. They even read some of their letters aloud at Mass one Sunday. Wrote Tiannia Easter, 9, to the Peoples Gas Co.: "There are many people out of work in my neighborhood, but I would like you to hire just one for me." George Charles, a department manager for the gas company, was among the many executives who were...