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...Huey Long, would have found Helms incomprehensible. "Anybody that lets his public policies get mixed up with his religious prejudices," Long said, "is a goddamned fool." But Helms, heedless, faces the crowd this day in bleachers on the parched crab grass and delivers a sermon. He rhapsodizes about his pen pal Alexander Solzhenitsyn's dedication to freedom and Christianity. He flagrantly overstates Alexis de Tocqueville's 19th century observations about American piety. Most of all, he praises God. "The Lord is speaking to us: 'I have need for thee.' To uphold the principles and the laws, to be dedicated...
...pen that dashed off vitriolic criticism to academics became compassionate when everyday folk asked for spiritual advice. To a German prisoner contemplating suicide: "Regarding your prayers. How do you know they are in vain? God has his own time, and he may well know the right moment to lift the double shadow that now lies over your life...
Most people are reluctant to write letters because they feel they must produce a masterpiece every time they pick up a pen. It usually turns out that the receiver is so happy to get a letter that the literary style is ignored...
...leap that began in 1945, when a line of people over half a mile long lined up in New York City to buy the symbol of the new post-war age--the ball point pen. Everyone, it seemed, wanted to be modern, and a pen that could write upside down (as well as under water) certainly seemed a step in the right direction. That same year, Harvard got into the modern act as well, as a committee to study the curriculum began to meet...
...book is also an imaginative leap, and easily accessible as such even to those unfamiliar with the details of German life in this or the 17th century. Grass whisks himself off to one of the many times in history when the sword seemed mightier than the pen. He watches poets' gather at an obscure village inn, all of them taking risks to get there. Brigands and bands of hungry soldiers terrorize travelers; the local river yields up dead bodies. Ignorant armies have been clashing night and day for nearly 30 years. Food is scarce; there is "nothing left...