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Truthful Witness. At the beginning, to be sure, Solzhenitsyn sets out a number of narrative seedlings that he clearly expects to nourish to fuller life in future volumes. Among the best minor characters are a rich, rough, self-made landowner named Tomchak and his studious daughter (who may be drawn from the author's mother and grandfather). Solzhenitsyn's principal literary creation (and expository device) is a staff colonel named Verotyntsev, who has license to follow the battle to frontline trenches as an observer and sometimes as tactical hero. Verotyntsev has fictional possibilities. He combines a kind...
...edible memorial may well nourish fond remembrances of a man more effectively and at far less cost than all of the cold monuments and dull libraries that are now so prevalent. A steaming bowl of Eisenhower vegetable soup might warm recollections more quickly than rummaging through the Eisenhower papers in Abilene. How better to catch the flavor of Lyndon Johnson than by munching a deer-foot sausage or supping on hot Pedernales chili? Richard Nixon could be forewarned to start scouring his ancestral cookbooks, if only to avoid being commemorated by cottage cheese with ketchup...
...about both. In an essay, he once called himself the victim of "a contradiction of attractions. I am critical of the past, yet attracted to it; and though I am even more critical of the present, I am also quite clearly attracted to it." That kind of ambivalence can nourish a nov elist able to explore its consequences...
...January 1970, three London Processeans arrived in Boston; they were later joined by a few others in founding the first American chapter. In comparison to the original London chapter, the Process in Boston has thrived remarkably; apparently there is still something in the American climate to nourish transplanted dissenting religions. At one point the Boston chapter had 150 members in its community, many more than the Church ever had in London. They have since sent out members to begin chapters in Chicago, Toronto, and New Orleans, so that the number in this area is now set at about 100 members...
...that, though James, Livingston, Alex and Kate all took up various instruments (violin, cello, piano), they seldom took lessons for long. Mrs. Taylor did not go to church. Instead, she taught her children "to believe in people," and long before ecology became a household word, she encouraged them to nourish a pantheistic sense that the earth is a "beautiful, fragile place." As a very little boy James was greatly affected by the Bible Belt religion he heard at school. Mrs. Taylor remembers how he needed reassurance that he would not burn in hell for his sins...