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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Patriotic Gore, by Edmund Wilson. A vast, masterful exploration of Civil War writing and what it meant...
...pocket cost. Even then, with the full ransom in hand or pledged, and with fast transportation assured, the whole effort almost fell apart. For Castro insisted on ironclad guarantees that he could collect cash for any goods not delivered, once the prisoners were set free. This meant a $53 million performance bond. Katzenbach flew to Montreal to seek such a bond from the Royal Bank of Canada, which has a representative in Cuba. "It was zero-zero," recalls Katzenbach, "zero outside, and even colder inside the bank." The Royal Bank insisted it must have letters of credit from U.S. banks...
Frazier's rhetorical flights carry readers past such disquieting polysyllables as "crepuscular," "demetry" and "blevins." The last, as hundreds of Bostonians discovered after vainly combing the dictionary, is no word at all, but a typographical error. Frazier meant Bruins, the name of the city's ice hockey team. The point is not that some Herald hand faltered, but that Frazier followers faithfully went on a blevins hunt...
Bitter Berliners. What it has meant over the past weeks is a breathtaking display of cliff-walking by der Alte, as he alternately flirted with the potent Socialists and with the Free Democrats to find a workable coalition. What finally emerged was a 21-man Cabinet in which most of the top men, such as Economics Minister Erhard, Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroder and Special Affairs Minister Heinrich Krone, retained their old jobs. It is a Cabinet somewhat younger than the previous one, and more conservative...
...from the station by the route that leads past the man's house. And when he does, he takes off his glasses to look more formidable. One day he sees the man wearing the jacket of a veterans' organization, and Stern's heart turns over. "It meant the man had come through the worst part of the Normandy campaign, knew how to hold his breath in foxholes for hours at a time and then sneak out to slit a throat in silence. He was skilled as a foot fighter and went always with deadly accuracy...