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...abstract diction create a prose rhythm which is occasionally too slow for the rapid mental fluctuations it describes. "But of course that shudder lay hidden in the earliest glances, electrified your passion, and even now has stolen back through the rainy night to fasten itself once more upon your innermost hopes of resurrection...
...suit now? Mrs. Kennedy seems to feel that the author was not circumspect enough in his use of material gleaned from ten hours of her tape recorded reminiscences a few months after the assassination. Undoubtedly, she revealed her "innermost" thoughts to Manchester--but why did she do so, if she didn't want him, the authorized historian of the assassination, to use the material? And if she is so touchy about her so-called privacy, why did she ever allow Manchester to invade it in the first place? What is most perplexing, however, is that the elite group...
...civilian colleagues at the joint U.S.-Thailand Military Research and Development Center near Bangkok have any plans to work on such far-out equipment. Detecting and dealing with guerrillas is their basic task, and if they have not yet figured out how to spy on the enemy's innermost thoughts, they have at least gone a long way toward pin pointing his presence. They have built detectors that spot guerrillas by their slightest sounds or movements. They can literally sniff an enemy's presence by the very odors of his body, food or clothing. "What we are trying...
Vorenberg's assignment, however, is much broader than merely reporting and analyzing the facts. According to President Johnson, who called on him to take a leave of absence as Professor of Law at Harvard, Vorenberg must "get to the innermost recesses of the problem," formulate a "national strategy," and suggest legislation over the entire range of criminal justice. And so, in addition to the assessment task force, he has designated groups to study...
...centuries the bodies lay in the innermost recesses of the cave, buried beneath a growing cover of bat dung until some Arabs, poking around in the desert in the hope of finding some salable antiquities, stumbled on the Samaritan skeletons in 1962. Digging in the dung, they unearthed jewelry, pottery and papyrus, property deeds and marriage contracts that the Samaritans had carried with them to their deaths...