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...diversions and the Janizary music of loud-voiced enterprises to keep lonely thoughts away." Yet all the noise is in vain: "No Grand Inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety, and no spy knows how to attack more artfully the man he suspects, choosing the instant when he is weakest, nor knows how to lay traps where he will be caught and ensnared, and no sharp-witted judge knows how to interrogate, to examine the accused, as anxiety does, which never lets him escape, neither by diversion nor by noise, neither at work nor at play, neither...
Whether it is pride in the institution of the secret ballot or fear of identification, I feel pleased that all but 34 of those called refused to answer. An inquisitor who refuses to be identified does not deserve an answer...
Lionel's chairman, and the chief of a syndicate that took over the failing company last year and put it on its feet, is Roy M. Cohn, longtime aide to Senator Joseph McCarthy and leading inquisitor in McCarthy's bitter row with the Army. Cohn viewed more than 25 executives and engaged two management consultant firms before finding "the impossible man." "They said he didn't exist," said Cohn, "but here he is." Medaris takes a prudently tolerant view of working with the Army's former antagonist, says: "Let us forgive the mistakes of youth...
...queen when one member makes a louder hum than the others. Thus, when Teddy was a brawny end at Harvard, every Kennedy became an expert football coach and traveled in T-formation to Cambridge on autumn Saturdays to watch him play. In Bobby's heyday as the grand inquisitor of the Senate McClellan committee, when he was making Jimmy Hoffa squirm, the clan became totally absorbed in the investigation, discussed it over every dinner table and every long-distance telephone call and beat a path to the white marble Senate Caucus Room. Even the in-laws are not immune...
Sjostrom has been criticized for not emphasizing the "heartless coldness" that Borg's daughter-in-law alleges to exist in him. However, while she is a compelling inquisitor, the daughter-in-law is an impassioned--and perhaps obtuse--observer, who need not be believed. Bergman's direction of Sjostrom seemed quite valid in every respect...