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...Deep Bore...
What's valuable about this new collection is the inclusion of ten letters (and one postcard) that were never published before, as well as substantive additions to 23 previously censored letters. Or maybe only partially valuable, because some of these letters would bore even the Englishman Haines from Ulysses...
...chief of Manufacturers Hanover Trust of New York shouldered somberly and authoritatively through these familiar waters. He is Gabriel Hauge, and he bore the message to beware of New York City's default and urged federal help. Hauge was a master of the elbow squeeze, the whispered message-first to Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, then to Arthur Burns, chairman of the Federal Reserve. It was an intense warning, but applied under the full protocols of the court: ideas contend...
Baez did not seem at ease. She was very sensitive to the crowd, sometimes even responding to the things people shouted out. "Do you remember Newport?" "Yeah, I remember Newport. All that madonna stuff. What a bore." The audience was content to listen to her but she was jumpy, assuring everyone not to worry, her would be back soon. "I've never been to a rock concert before, do people sing along at these things?" -- she was a little bit bitchy. The material was exactly what you would expect: "Joe Hill," "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down...
...Orient Express sped westward from Istanbul one September day in 1921, a tall, slender young classicist gazed thoughtfully out the window. "I was overwhelmed by the beauty of the Bela Palanka Gorge in the light of the full moon, as our train bore down upon Nish," wrote Arnold Toynbee, who had been covering the Greco-Turkish war for the Manchester Guardian. Before he went to sleep that night, he took out a fountain pen and jotted down "a list of topics" on half a sheet of paper...