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...bishop experienced a constant inner joy: "He always awoke a young man ... One could breathe that [air] only on the bright edges of the world, on the great grass plains or the sagebrush desert." Horgan testifies to Lamy's love of Western saddle life, but concedes a sadder truth: "If he had any capacity to express exalted feeling, he left no record...
...about Spain, but I'm sadder about the U.S. because President Ford said nothing about the executions. The Western European countries said and did something, but the U.S. said and did virtually nothing. Good night, "free...
...glory. West wrote with fury, but without rancor or condescension. "It is hard to laugh at the need for beauty and romance, no matter how tasteless, even horrible the results are," runs the novel's most famous passage. "But it is easy to sigh. Few things are sadder than the truly monstrous." By that standard, John Schlesinger's film is nothing less than a tragedy...
...there can be no more morals, just time. So parents can't care what happens to their children, they can only hope it doesn't happen too soon. Time might even run out for Slocum at his job, where his motto is "connive to survive, keep alive til five." Sadder still, Slocum concludes that even if we have time that's all we have, we don't have anything to do with...
...Adams, at least, this confidence is rudely shaken when he takes his family for an extended stay at the Rufus Arms, "the least pretentious and most expensive hotel in Lawnsmere," a pseudonymous Surrey town only a Times-crossword-puzzle by train from London. As Mark tells it in a sadder-but-wiser voice, the plan was to stash his family in the countryside while he commuted to the city to research a book about Sir Gordon Sandstone, a hero of the Boer...