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...archives of the Vermont Historical Society, the new diary contains entries from 1753 to 1758, partly overlapping the previous diary and pushing the saga of John's life back two years to his career as a Harvard sophomore. The discovery shows a younger John Adams, says L.H. Butterfield, editor in chief of the Adams Papers, and "sheds a good deal of light on the character and training of the farmer's son who became the second President of the United States...
...wont for most of his early diary-writing years (he kept a journal of some form or another until he left the Presidency), he followed no rigid pattern as to which books he wrote in. "He sometimes had three or four books going at once," according to Butterfield. "But he got a little formal about it when he went to Congress and became a public leader. Then he used storebought books. Before that, he used to make them himself...
...impulsive," explains Butterfield, who has spent last 11 years editing The Papers for the Belknap of Harvard University . "He won't put down a lot of things that you wish he would, and then he will put down a lot of things you're surprises to find. But he's a great stylist. He says things that would be commonplace if said by anyone else, but he gives them a characteristics turn that makes what he writes worthy of perpetuation...
...against the weak Cadet defense, the Crimson might be able to get some-thing going. Ron Butterfield, an all-East second-team defenseman last year, can't carry the entire Army defense by himself. His three companions are all untested sophomores, as are the two Cadet goalies...
...generally admitted that Samarra and Butterfield 8 are brilliant, but they were done so long ago that they are no defense for their author, gnat-bitten by reviewers in middle age. What is not admitted is that A Rage to Live, Ten North Frederick and From the Terrace are excellent novels. From the Terrace. the best of the three, stands almost alone in U.S. fiction as a thoroughly successful study of a man reaching for the highest financial power. The novel is 897 pages long; it lacks drama and is built, like most lives, entirely of minutiae. It moves slowly...