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...SCENE in the classroom buildings is strange, that in the dining hall--Cadet Menu It's called- in stranger still. All the Cadets eat together in one huge room. In the middle of the room stands a large granite structure which looks like the front of its Church. In fact, it was formerly the front door of the menu hall before the building was enlarged to accommodate larger classes...
...everyone, being oddly short-tempered with his children. Yet the very next image shows him (yes) fondly, unflappably delivering Bette's last child himself in their Iowa house. Sheets of typewritten paper flutter across the screen. They coalesce into the three books that Bach wrote before Jonathan?the first, Stranger to the Ground, fading into a Reader's Digest logo, with "condensed" written under...
...generality of years rushing by to the specificity of a detailed moment. The author willingly admits that a part of the narrative is "pretty boring" or depicts himself looking over Person's shoulder, perceived by the hero as "an umbral companion," "a larger, incredibly wiser, calmer and stronger stranger, morally better than...
...never try to trick him." But Spivak will hold a guest's previous public statements against him if he seems to be waffling. "A man had better be prepared to justify or explain his changes of position," he says. Such grilling can exhaust its targets. George Meany, no stranger to rough-and-tumble public debate, once grumped: "A half-hour on that show can age you ten years." Spivak is also stern with the reporters who appear. At the cost of a certain spontaneity, questioners must speak in turn on his cue; Spivak hates "overtalk from all those eager...
...with them aboard their SAS flight to New York. During the eight-hour flight, Gartley said that a North Vietnamese Army officer had been the first to tell him of his impending release. "At first I didn't believe it," Gartley recalled. "But since the officer was a stranger and began talking very seriously, I knew something was up." A P.O.W. for four years, Gartley described the treatment he received as "quite good...