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...Volumes I (1930-39) and II (1939-45) of Diaries and Letters gave a penetrating analysis of the Establishment; in Kent, England. Husband of the late novelist Vita Sackville-West and son of a Brit ish lord, Nicolson moved with ease through the rooms at the top, recording with candor and wit the intrigues and personalities of Europe's destiny shapers. He was devoted to Churchill, disdainful of De Gaulle, yet found nearly everyone fascinating. "Only one person in a thousand is a bore," he once told his son, "and he is interesting because he is one person...
...government which he though to be the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today to lecture others on non-violence, he saw as unseemly at best. This is not to condone, as he himself did not condone. And thus one must in candor, point out that many of those who now luxuriatingly inflame to violence are often, as Orwell once suggested, those who are always elsewhere when the trigger is pulled, who "playing with fire don't even know that fire...
There is no false cheeriness in Pavese, and a candor that all who live by deluding themselves may find unwelcome but valuable. And there is a devotion to nature and to the virtues of the land that surprises the reader who thinks he is in the hands of a total pessimist. In near lyrical terms, Pavese expresses his warmest admiration for the peasants, their generosity and their capacity for honest work and robust living. As one of his characters replies when asked if he likes Mussolini's Italy: "Not Italy. The Italians...
...conceptualize and articulate the manifold problems and tensions imposed by the American racial dilemma. There was no doubt that Hamilton had done his homework, and he drew often from recent experience outside the classroom. He faced questions directly, often taking them beyond their obvious conclusions, and always with striking candor. To the question of what the white's role is in Black Power politics, Hamilton quickly replied: "The (Kerner) Report speaks to whites, not blacks; what happens as a result of it depends on whites. Your place is in the white community just as ours is in the black community...
From then on, vast numbers of telegrams and letters were exchanged by the two men, with Frankfurter sending far more than he received. Such mild expressions as "the candor, courage and conscience of your humane leadership" must have seemed routine to F.D.R., next to the uninhibited assurance that "You know how I have felt about you as a symbol of manliness . . . the symbol that is forever one of our great national possessions-utterances-as rare as they are precious, that will live forever in the amber of history." If F.D.R. ever squirmed, he never showed it. His small contribution...