Word: stampedes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Naturally, something had to happen to show that the barn door is still not locked. The very next night, Housing Minister Richard Crossman, an acid critic of the Vassall affair, took some work with him to dinner at the West End's elegant Prunier's restaurant. After coffee...
"Two murders in one day," Bundie said half-aloud, echoing the Chief's words. "Two murders in one day." With an absent-minded kick, Bundie sent a stray piece of paper flying. Suddenly his heart leaped to his throat: the paper was identical to the one he had found inside...
"I Don't Expect to Duck." For Lyndon Johnson, the days run into nights and the nights into days. "Some days," he said, "I suddenly realize at 5 o'clock that I haven't had lunch." Frequently, he is still on the telephone at 4 a.m. He...
Made painfully aware of OAS shortcomings, President John Kennedy said shortly after the abortive 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion: "Let the record show that our restraint is not inexhaustible. Should it ever appear that the inter-American doctrine of noninterference merely conceals or excuses a policy of nonaction-if the...
Dreiser's importance to the American novel lay in what seemed to be his "social realism." He imagined himself an American Zola, and set out to describe the ordinary lives of ordinary people in ordinary language. He stamped all over the parlor niceties of Victorian tradition and proclaimed in...