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...long ago, freaks had the power to shock and terrify. Now, be cause they have been too often dis played they are, at best, diversions. As a gathering place for hippogriffs and zombies, as the setting for a novel, Times Square is good for horselaughs...
...course, innocence is never wholly restored. Yet U.S. society can be amazingly resilient and forgetful. It has often shown a healing ability to forget -or, as Mark Twain had it, to "dis-remember"-the sins of the enemy as well as those of the self...
...their elect ed representatives. By custom, the Queen ruled her consort. In practice he eventually tamed and directed her. "I treasured up everything I heard," she wrote, "kept every letter in a box to tell & show him, & was always so vexed & nervous if I had any foolish draft or dis patch to show him, as I knew it would distress & irritate him and affect his poor dear stomach...
...hear again what it was like to grow up bright and sensitive in Lakewood, Ohio. His Stateside Army experi ence during World War II includes the familiar rich, condescending WASP and bullying lieutenant. Later comes a dis satisfying family life in Detroit. Adul tery and divorce are followed by New York sex-and-guilt games and the price one pays in lost work time. For the man nered fictional version, see Gold's novel Salt...
...State for Con gressional Relations: "The rules do not permit attacks on nonmilitary targets and place out-of-bounds all inhabited villages . . . We deeply regret the fate of all victims of the war, both those killed by North Vietnamese action and those whose lives have been lost or dis rupted as a consequence of the defense of their country...