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"While in the parlors of indignation," Saul Bellow wrote, "the right-thinking citizen brings his heart to a boil." Bellow's character Moses Herzog did that. Herzog wrote crank letters to ex-wives, to Dwight Eisenhower, to Adlai Stevenson, to Spinoza. "There is someone inside me. I am in his...
In the earlier days of the Republic, however, Presidents and their entourages sometimes felt that their own programs, if not the national security itself, would be vulnerable if a grave illness were admitted. As John B. Moses and Wilbur Cross relate in the book Presidential Courage (W.W. Norton Co., 1980...
Falk holds that a central issue between the schools was Jewish-Gentile relations. The School of Shammai taught that non-Jews had no hope of eternal life. One of the faction's first acts upon gaining power in the Sanhedrin, the supreme council of the Jews, was to pass a...
Good money might be made in this trade. But Babcock is not in barns for the sake of business; he is in business for the sake of barns. "They are our strongest link with the colonial past," he says. "Preserving them, we preserve history; we preserve art." And sometimes, the...
By Friday, Jourdain allowed journalists slightly more access, giving them freedom to set up cameras in parking lots at a number of community centers where wakes and memorial services were taking place. But journalists remained barred from entering the services or going anywhere else on the reservation. "Sometimes the press...