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...what about Nixon? "Only the worst Nixon-hater would want to see him in jail. People say he went scot free. He didn't go scot free. I would hope to have an opportunity to talk to him about this some day. I can't say he would see me, but I'd tell him what, as a young man, I've experienced. For one thing, how I've become immune to attacks. Magruder, Segretti, Krogh and others, we've done wrong. We've admitted it. We're no longer burdened...
...green light" from the State Department "to move in the name of President Nixon." The memo says Korry was given "maximum authority to do all possible--short of a Dominican Republic type action--to keep Allende from taking power." Korry had a reputation in Chile as a virulent Allende-hater. He was a Nixon appointee...
Like Roth, Peter Tarnopol, the narrator of his main story, is a hater of patterns, above all the repetitions of success. "The golden boy of American literature" at 26, Tarnopol has "a boundless belief in my ability to win." Why not? He has "never before been defeated." Graduated summa cum laude from Brown after a triumphant Yonkers boyhood, he manages to convert Army service in Germany into a prizewinning novel, A Jewish Father...
...champion Emanuel Lasker: "To you, Dr. Lasker, I have only three words, check and mate." He lost. Or Paul Morphy, the American who was acknowledged as the world's best player during a career of only a year and a half in the 1850s, and who died insane, a hater of the game. And the Cuban Jose Raul Capablanca, arguably the greatest player of all time. His government gave him a permanent position as a roving diplomat, transferring him to a post in whatever city his next tournament was scheduled...
What an extraordinary record O'Neill compiled for a life hater! The second and final volume of Louis Sheaffer's fair-minded biography picks him up, 31 and ascendant, at his Broadway debut with Beyond the Horizon, which won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1920. Between 1920 and 1922 he turned out eight plays. He wrote The Emperor Jones in about two weeks, The Hairy Ape in 2½ and Ah! Wilderness in less than a month...