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...were sold out by English duplicity and Islamic squabbling after 1918. He has been dead 40 years. In the meantime, there have been as many Lawrences as writers: the adulated hero (Robert Graves), the narcissistic moral cynic (Richard Aldington), the Hamlet, the Lord Jim of Araby, the heroic closet queen, and so on down to the sexy, prancing psychotic portrayed by Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia. In A Prince of Our Disorder, Harvard Psychiatry Professor John Mack has absorbed them all. His prose has the texture of gray felt, but it takes us closer to the core...
Throughout the campaign, some of Carter's political opponents have tried to depict him as a closet racist-one whose sensitivity to black causes coincided with the development of his political ambitions. The major chinks in Carter's armor...
Questioned initially by U.S. Attorney James L. Browning Jr., Fort implied that Patty's treatment was a good deal less harsh than she or the defense psychiatrists described it. He stated, for example, that the closet where she spent her first four weeks was equipped with a foam mattress, a pillow and a reading light. After her blindfold was removed, she read S.L.A. tracts and Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth, a required text for Third World revolutionaries...
...this pitch-black room not much bigger than a walk-in closet, the actors waited alone, standing among bare furniture and containers of Jiffy Pop. They listened nervously for cues and silently urged one another on with nods of the head and "O.K." signs. Through the narrow doorway, only the orchestra was visible and the brightly-lit scrim which changed color from scene to scene: red, green, blue. Stage lights turned the air to a tinged blue haze which echoed with the disembodied voices of actors and laughter and applause. Every so often an actor dashed through the greenroom, grabbing...
...improved human relations to Carter was efficiency in government. One of the few things that make him stop smiling is disorder or sloppy work. He was appalled by Georgia's jumble of some 300 overlapping state agencies. He recalls: "It had got so that every time I opened the closet door of my office, a new state agency would fall...