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...author a sense of "the atmospheric pressure" endured by long-term convicts like Gilmore. Mailer accepted the offer and was stunned by the hard-edged eloquence of the self-educated Abbott, who boasted: "Nine-tenths of my vocabulary I have never heard spoken." Wrote Mailer: "I felt all the awe one knows before a phenomenon." He helped Abbott publish the letters; In the Belly of the Beast appeared to critical ovations in July. Then, by attesting to the convict's talent and promising him a job in New York, Mailer helped persuade the Federal Parole Board to release...
...test flight. Scientists such as Eric J. Chaisson, associate professor of Astronomy, emphasized the shuttle's potential as part of the nation's military planning, but when Columbia glided onto a southern California runway after a perfect 54 1/2-hour mission, most could not help but feel a surge of awe--and relief--at the accomplishment...
Alexandre Dumas père was another happy satyr; women referred to him, with awe, as a "force of nature." Dumas also had a happy disposition, and since he could not be faithful himself, he did not ask fidelity from others. He once caught a friend in his wife's bedroom, and, instead of starting the usual tiresome scene, invited him to spend the night. The next morning he shook the man's hand. "Shall two old friends quarrel about a woman," he asked, "even when she's a lawful wife?" Like a good father, he gave...
...apparently insoluble problem: Vatican experts have only an approximate knowledge of where anything is. The effort to catalogue the papal treasures has been going on for more than 300 years now, and archivists still speak with awe of Cardinal Josephus Garampi, who managed, before his death in 1772, to inscribe more than 1.5 million catalogue entries, in strictly alphabetical order, in 124 large folio volumes. But since the millions of documents were all arranged by their places of origin rather than by subject matter, the problems of cross-indexing stretch toward infinity. And the staff numbers only 30. "If this...
...Administration outside Paris. But the awe is fading. Says Bernard Courtaud, head of an executive recruiting firm in Paris: "French companies that wanted to hire many American- trained M.B.A.s were often disappointed because the M.B.A.s turned out to be very expensive and after a few years, they generally left...