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...othat he can face death victoriously, must we join his family in pretending this burning pain in his abdomen will disappear?For one thing, such a sufferer may feel cut off from his family, unable to admit or what he suspects. "He can't turn to them, or lean on them; he can't ask their forgiveness; he can't set his affairs in order or say the words, or pray the prayers or cry the tears that must be shed because all of this can only be done when he is permitted the luxury of facing...
...long, lean years with one giddy fling...
...spaced between long plane hops, which give the press ample time to eat and write; Kennedy travels in short flights, is always behind schedule, and the lunch stop is invariably the first item to be cut from the day's itinerary. A current crack among Kennedy's lean staffers: "The Senator has said that 17 million Americans go to bed hungry at night, and he expects you to do your part...
...this coincidence? Certainly, said Gould-who added that it was also "providential." As for the Providence Journal's Ogden, a lean, unpoetic and law-abiding 49-year-old, he said smilingly: "Doesn't look like me at all. I'm a distinguished, handsome chap...
...Alabama sharecropper during the summer of 1936. The book begins with 64 starkly beautiful photographs by Walker Evans, probing into the timeless peasant homes and sun-squinting faces of the Deep South, then ravaged by the Depression. Despite centuries of Anglo-Saxon inbreeding, the faces seem Latin: these same lean, starveling families could have emerged as easily from the caves of the Mezzogiorno or the baked hills of Mexico...