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...Thursday, Dec. 5, 1963, Arthur Inman, one of the most bizarre Americans in the history of the Republic, went into his toilet carrying a Colt revolver. The latest in a lifelong string of crises, real or imagined, to cause Inman to despair was rising outside his old haunt in Boston's Back Bay. "The Prudential Tower," he had told his diary, "is 28 stories into the sky, soon will be goosing God." He had fled to Brookline to escape the din of construction, taking with him the noises in his head, and now he was over the edge. "This...
Inman, whom Aaron calls Arthur as affectionately as you would an old uncle just stepped away for tea, seems to have won his editor's respect with his lifelong refusal to pretty himself up, much less anyone else. The diarist would look at scribblings 20 years old, realize what a creep he had been when he had written that, yet reject his right to excise a word. His own wife was "a pathetic little wren," though at another time she was his "treasure girl with a heart of gold," but then again she was "homely as a stump fence built...
...thus unfolds from the leisurely perspective of eternity, with frequent interruptions from the two immortals guiding the tour. Given this long view, episodes tend to cluster into something resembling a preordained pattern. Born in a backwater village in eastern Canada, Francis had his maternal grandfather to thank for his lifelong freedom from money worries. He owes his mixed Protestant and Roman Catholic training to the strictures of his British father, whose family has been Church of England "since Reformation times," and the meddling of an aunt who gives him holy pictures and sees that a priest baptizes him during...
...aged 20 to 24." All of this adds up to twice the normal risk of delivering a low-birth-weight baby (one that weighs under 5.5 lbs.), a category that puts an infant in danger of serious mental, physical and developmental problems that may require costly and possibly even lifelong medical care...
...high school junior, I have started the admissions process for West Point. The article about the cadets was special to me because it has been my lifelong dream to attend the academy and become an officer in the Army. Someday I hope to follow those three cadets' paths...