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Occasionally John succumbs to a flaw Lem's other protagonists do not: his witty cynicism turns to bromides and offending overstatement, as in the remark "despite the exhaust fumes, I could make out the scent of flowers in the gently fluttering breeze." For this we have Lem to blame: in his eagerness to emphasize the irony behind scientific progress that has backfired, he commits the sin of self-indulgence...
...Watergate and the CIA. As for inaccuracy, "I think a lot of that was caused by my relative in accessibility ... I think that we've made some progress." Time was up; a strong accusation had been made but only softly documented. Was this −like Eisenhower's remark about the military-industrial complex −an unexpected, out-of-character presidential comment, to be made once and then dropped...
...speeches Tillie quoted the following remark from a conference on creativity. "Creativity was in each one of us as a small child. In children it is universal. Among adults it is nonexistent. The great question is what happened to this enormous and universal capacity? That is the question of the age." This same sentiment is reflected in her own words from As I Stand Ironing. "Let her be. So all that is in her will not bloom, but in how many does...
...South African economy and polity. This is documented by educators, the Committee on Race Relations, and is the legacy of a history of devoting virtually no resources to the education of roughly 80 per cent of the population of that beleagured country. I therefore place particular importance on the remark I made earlier on the importance of training and the development of skills which will make admittedly minor contributions to a very sad situation; but it seems to me and has seemed to others to be at least some movement in the right direction...
...Lieb's published remark about Lutèce's frozen turbot, that accusation stirred temblors in Manhattan stockpots. Lutece's Chef Andre Soltner indignantly produced fish market receipts to show one and all that his turbot was fresh. Lieb apologized, and the usually meticulous New Yorker, accused of publishing a canard, explained that to preserve Otto's anonymity, it had taken the exceptional step of allowing the author of the piece to do most of the checking...