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...time of transition and suspension. Along New England's shores, the squeak of a fisherman's oars against thole pins sounded lonely and clear in the fog of early morning, lately shrill with the cries of the vacationist and his young. The town greens had subsided into their dreaming quiet and the beaches were left to the surfcasters. Vermont's fields were gilded with goldenrod, shadowed with purple asters, and the swamp maples glowed...
...idealistic democracy learn to operate its foreign policy on a cold, calculating, day-to-day basis? Can it break the cycle of military lethargy and emotional fist-shaking, learn to think in terms of "rational and restricted purposes" and withstand the shrill cries of press and politicians who demand extremes? Says Kennan: "History does not forgive us our national mistakes because they are explicable in terms of our domestic policies . . . A nation which excuses its own failures by the sacred untouchableness of its own habits can excuse itself into complete disaster...
...China hand known for his plump amiability and his fluency in Mandarin. In 20 years of service in China, he saw the warlords fade, the Japs come & go, the Nationalists driven before the Communists. None of these great events startled easygoing Dave Barrett more than a shrill accusation by Radio Peking last week. Colonel Barrett, said Red China's government, is the ringleader of an "American imperialist" plot to murder Chairman Mao Tse-tung and other high Chinese comrades...
...Smutty Passages." A bourgeois himself, he hated the bourgeoisie. His displeasure buzzes through the letters, becomes almost shrill after the loss of part of his fortune in a family lumber venture. When the Paris censors declared Madame Bovary immoral, Flaubert was stung in his deepest selfesteem, hit back with fighting fury. As ammunition for the hearing, he collected "the greatest possible number of smutty passages drawn from ecclesiastical writers, particularly from contemporaries." Flaubert routed the prosecution, afterwards exulted in a visceral little report to his brother: "We gave it to them there, hot and strong...
...lesbian intimacy. In this final glance at the wasteland of his time, Williams is at his best: he records the inflections of U.S. speech with accuracy and economy. But when he gets around to giving his own recipe for improving U.S. life, what seems to emerge is a shrill cry against "usury," oddly reminiscent of Ezra Pound...