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...particularly puzzling feature of Speer's experience in prison is his religious evolution. He attended church service every Sunday, read theology, and talked occasionally with the chaplain. On reading the remark, "It is a precious thing to be patient and to hope for the help of the Lord," Speer observes somewhat scornfully, "Silly, to take any stock in that." But he seldoms mentions religious matters, much less his own spirituality. Then suddenly, in 1962, he writes simply, "I believe in a divine providence; I also believe in God's wisdom and goodness; I trust in his ways." What brought about...
...about the shoplifting fracas at Mel's Sporting Goods store, in which Patty helped the Harrises escape by firing weapons over their heads? West explained it away by saying that she performed exactly as she had been conditioned to do. He made much of Patty's first remark to the Harrises: "Did I do it right?" Patty, said the psychiatrist, was seeking their approval as though she were "a child...
...evenings spent at a mountain castle: "Hitler was terribly nice. But such a parvenu world!" He broods on the fact that he suddenly cannot remember the Führer's "engaging traits": "Have continued to reflect on my relationship to Hitler. The theme of faithlessness." He recalls the remark of an associate, "made after an evening visit to my studio, that I was Hitler's unrequited love...
...that they could overthrow the United States of America through terrorist tactics." After she was frightened into submission, she also became convinced that the FBI would kill her if she tried to escape?a conviction, Bailey went on, that was only hardened by then Attorney General William Saxbe's remark that Patty should be regarded as "nothing but a common criminal." At the moment she was captured by FBI agents last September, Bailey continued, "her terror mounted to the point which is probably the highest a human being can stand, and she became incontinent." As they listened to Bailey...
...understood this when he made his remark about Go, for the time Japan was militarily at China's throat...