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...first two days were cloudy and cold. We hung around the beach in sweaters, just enjoying the view and sipping tropical drinks. When the weather improved, we explored some of the others islands and found the perfect beach on Paradise Island. It was completely sheltered from the wind, with pure white sand and almost no people. That beach was a beautiful sight--I really wish I was there...
...there a real-life counterpart for the lovely, open-hearted Esther, pictured arm-in-arm with Luke on that early album cover? Does the self-pitying, rather irritating Billy really exist? Don't know, don't care, though if Esther and Billy are pure invention, what is the point of the Dylan caricature? These are questions that readers will ask, and try to answer. But they get in the way of the novel, which, of course, has done a thorough job of getting...
...description of the President as perhaps the fundamental motive force of our age: "Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts...Roosevelt, more than any other man living within the range of notoriety, showed the singular primitive quality that belongs to ultimate matter--he was pure...
...deserves to be remembered, I think, for some acts more visionary than land grabbing south of the border. He fathered the modern American Navy, for example, while his peacemaking between Russia and Japan in 1905 elevated him to the front rank of presidential diplomats. He pushed through the Pure Food and Meat Inspection laws of 1906, forcing Congress to acknowledge its responsibility as consumer protector...
...fact, the image of the man before the tank simplified--even distorted--as many complex truths as any image does. The students leading the demonstrations were not always peace loving and notoriously bickered among themselves; many were moved by needs less lofty than pure freedom. At least seven retired generals had written to the People's Daily opposing the imposition of martial law, and many of the soldiers sent to put down the demonstrators were surely as young, as confused and as uncommitted to aggression as many of the students were. As one of the pro-democracy movement's leaders...