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...Bach, but conversations secretly recorded, no different from Richard Nixon. The messianic figure who called a country to seek a New Frontier seemed to have been dumped back in the old hinterlands of presidential spying; the cool and courageous war hero was bugging his own family, as dirty a deed as tackling during touch football...
...full content of the Kennedy tapes may not be known for some time. The Kennedy family gave the recordings to the Kennedy Library under a deed banning public disclosure of any transcripts that might embarrass a taped participant about personal matters while that individual remains alive. Thus the library staff is expected to return to the family any tapes unrelated to the "business" of the presidency. What Jack said to Jackie may never be revealed. The tapes dealing with official matters are being transcribed. They will be screened for national security considerations before being released, some of them later this...
...Mother Teresa of Calcutta should commit murder, any court might weigh her amazing life's labor against the evil of the one deed. The murder would be the exception in a life that otherwise displayed merit and extravagantly claimed mercy. But Jack Abbott's vividly ranting book, brutal and brutalized, should have made the jury wonder which was more characteristic of the man: literature or murder. In a long and essentially tragic perspective (in which all consequences are endured, all debts paid), literature performs its redemptions. Mailer's formula is a shallow little mechanism. "Culture is worth...
Repenting of her deed, Immergluck has sought advice of the giants, Offen and Besitz, and they tell her that she must procure the magic zither which confers upon its owner the power to go to sleep while apparently carrying on a conversation.... Immerglich calls to her side Dampfboot, the tinsmith of the gods, and bids him make for her a tarnhelm or invisible cap which will enable her to talk to people without their understanding a word she says. For a dollar and a half extra, Dampfboot throws in a magic ring which renders its wearer insensible...
...years later, the punch haunts Washington and the game. Halberstam writes, "Even now, rehabilitated, accepted by teammates and fans in two different cities, he was aware that he had been part of something terrible and frightening, that he was on the edge of having committed, however involuntarily, a dark deed...