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...knows Brother Bill, 63. He is a difficult man to overlook, his 5-ft. 11-in., 220-lb. frame clad in a trademark flowing, sky-blue cassock made from hundreds of tattered denim patches. That robe has become an understood symbol of peace and humility in this place with precious little of either. Fifty-three times, by his count, he has waded into gunfire in order to stop it. Fifty-three times, the gunfire has stopped. And 53 times, he has emerged unscathed...
...Moore's insights into the human element are precious. The people he interviews while they are eating dinner at The Hearty Platter make rather simplistic economic comments, but they're obviously in bad shape; and it's not really their fault. A band of welfare mothers march into the Milwaukee State House, offering to clean the governor's office as an illustration of their eagerness to work. One mother recites the government retraining programs that have left her as unemployed as when she began. This is real, and hearing it from the mouths of real people rather than from Democrats...
...decor does not quite live up to the promise of the window. The previously honey-colored, textured walls have been repainted white and covered with Victorian porcelain plates. Though certainly spare, the restaurant is white-on-white without the grace of abstraction. Instead, the sprinkling of tchotchkes verges on precious. Sevres porcelain knick-knacks accessorize the shelves with prim blue and white patterned sparkle, miniature paintings of cherubs in pastel colors decorate the walls. The menu has been toned down along with the decor. The prices have taken a nosedive, and the cuisine has evolved from trendy, Italiannate-Mediterraanean-inspired...
...fighting," he said in 1936, "to save a great and precious form of government for ourselves and for the world." F.D.R.'s brilliant (and sometimes not so brilliant) improvisations restored America's faith in democratic institutions. Elsewhere on the planet, democracy was under assault. Hitler was on the march in Europe. Japan had invaded China and dreamed of a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere under Japanese domination...
...people themselves which is essential to victory. I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days...We face the arduous days that lie before us in the warm courage of national unity; with the clear consciousness of seeking old and precious moral values; with the clean satisfaction that comes from the stern performance of duty by old and young alike...In this dedication of a nation we humbly ask the blessing of God. May He protect each and every one of us. May He guide me in the days to come...