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Seeking sun and solace, Nixon had moved from one opulent California fortress to another. Just before the pardon was announced, he and Pat left fog-shrouded San Clemente and drove 150 miles east to the 200-acre Palm Springs estate of his friend Walter Annenberg, U.S. Ambassador to Britain. But his swollen and painful leg kept Nixon indoors, away from the 18-hole golf course and eleven gravity-fed lakes and pools. On Thursday night two helicopters carried the former President and his entourage back to San Clemente. The next morning Nixon's personal physician, Dr. Walter Tkach, flew...
...ephemerality of existence recurs throughout the novel. In the opening chapter, Toru gazes out at the harbor and watches a ship appear in the fog...
Coming of age in the '50s was something less than storied. It was rather like taking a walk in a fog; one had to grope to achieve anything, from political experience to sexual savvy. It was not mere whim that caused Gadfly...
Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog...
Beecher is nearly prose-flat, simplistic, partial to Walt Whitman's "barbaric yawp" and defiant about it: "Must I be schooled,/ veil plain speech in symbolic fog, costume/ polemics for a merry morris dance,/ practice new types of ambiguity . . .?" He can be perversely unsophisticated, monotonously on the side of the "little...