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LOCKED ROOMS AND OPEN DOORS: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1933-1935 352 pages. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich...
...writers have combed their own lives for meaning more assiduously than Anne Morrow, the shy, highborn girl who married Charles A. Lindbergh at the height of his fame. Her books range from North to the Orient to Gift from the Sea. At their best they establish her as a womanly writer of considerable skill and restraint and justly give her a stature apart from her role as the Lone Eagle's wife. "Damn, damn, damn," she once confided to her diary. "I am sick of being this handmaid to the Lord...
...genuine as in California or possibly simply as a convenient cover in Georgia. Its advent is all the more unnerving because the history of flamboyant crimes is that they beget imitation. One skyjacking inspires another. As a result, perhaps not since the wave of fear brought on by the Lindbergh kidnaping in 1932 have families of wealth and position in the U.S. been so troubled about their safety. Though political in aim, the Hearst kidnaping was essentially a variant graft on that earlier malign strand of U.S. history. And the list of possible targets is no longer confined...
...LINDBERGH: In relation to our present resources, population and affluent life-styles in Europe and America, we quite obviously cannot maintain our present rate of growth. What do we do? Does this trend bend? Does it break...
...LINDBERGH: So it's a case of adjusting life to the energy available and its costs...