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Without a hint of despair or ill health he had taken a room at the Winken Blinken Motor Hotel one starry evening in April and slit both wrists with a razor blade. Morgan has spent a large part of his life trying to find out why. The possibility had begun to settle upon him, as imperceptibly as dust, that perhaps there hadn't been a reason at all. Maybe a man's interest in life could just thin up to a trickle and dry up; was that...
...George, we must believe in his past, and Redlich fails to express this. He is too young, loud, and energetic for a man whose only future lies in his memories. The only suggestion we have of a pitiable George Riley is Redlich's stooped posture; otherwise, there is no hint that his conscience is catching up with him painfully. In his eyes we see no sadness or anger--only the blank gaze of a bewildered...
...primary night, the first problem was how to tell the President that he had been soundly defeated. Said an aide: "Thank God we had him prepared, or it would have been very unpleasant breaking the news." The President was still upset. Said Jody Powell, with what sounded like a hint of understatement: "He is a graceful loser, but he is not a good loser. He was not at all happy...
...wants the U.S. to have "a grand strategy-a plan for the dangerous decade ahead." But he offers no hint of what the "grand strategy" would be. He wants "contingency plans for future Irans and Afghanistans." But what plans? Again, no elaboration. On the Middle East, Reagan has endorsed Israeli settlements on the West Bank when he is bidding for Jewish support, as he was recently in New York, but in his Chicago speech and other statements to more general audiences, he has avoided the West Bank controversy...
...sure when old age begins, society is vaguely terrified of it and mystified by it. The result is that many older people wind up feeling that society would prefer them out of sight. And the increasing segregation of senior citizens in homogeneous retirement towns and nursing homes hints that this may often be true. Another hint can be found in the fact that depression is the commonest medical complaint of the obviously...