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...that voice, "the Voice of Cape Ann," is flat and without timbre. His admirers describe it as a deadly monotone or compare it with Elmer Fudd talking with a mouthful of marbles. His patter is often punctuated by dead air and occasionally interrupted by some terse remark like "The peas are burning...
...Stateside noncombatant. His writing at this period sometimes lapsed into a chatty journalese. A few months before, in Algeria, sounding like a reporter quoting a football coach, he had written cheerily of wounded soldiers who were "busting to get back into the fray again." This was the conventional remark to make about wounded soldiers. But the peppy "busting" clanks falsely against the too elegant "fray," and what is suggested is a well-meaning visitor standing ill at ease in a hospital ward, not knowing what...
...Rehnquist as Chief Justice and Antonin Scalia to replace him as Associate on the Supreme Court, he explained that he wanted judges who would be "attentive to the rights specifically guaranteed in our Constitution and the proper role of the courts in our democratic system." On the surface that remark certainly seemed both reasonable and moderate, a respectful back-to-basics prescription for the high court. To a host of legal scholars, Democratic politicians and aroused liberals who saw beneath the surface, however, the words meant something else altogether. The President, these critics complained, was wrapping himself in the Constitution...
Muller's Peace Corps experience did not contribute to a rapport with Mengistu, though. "I mentioned that I had found it moving to revisit the village in which I had taught and in which Mengistu had been educated," reports Muller. "The remark evoked no response, not the thinnest smile of recognition...
Harriman was never a brilliant strategic thinker, but he could be shrewd. Often plodding yet at times strikingly bold, detached yet intense, he would seem half asleep at meetings, until someone uttered a fatuous remark. Then he would snap the offender's head off. His nickname in the Kennedy Administration was "the Crocodile...