Word: thought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kelley's headache became acute when House hearings on FBI practices compelled him to open a probe into the corruption of an agency once thought incorruptible. It turned out that FBI administrators had sanctioned big markups in the price of bugging equipment bought by the bureau from a favored contractor, Joseph Tait. Mohr, Callahan, Adams and as many as a dozen other FBI officials regularly played poker with Tait at the Blue Ridge Club near Harpers Ferry...
...agree that "only a couple of those guys know what they're doing." Moreover, all of the six field commanders owe their present jobs to Adams. As for the veteran field agents most disturbed by Adams' rise, Webster readily admits that "I did not ask what they thought of Adams. I don't see many of them. I've been trying to get a grip here at headquarters...
...truer literary equivalent, though, was the symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé. The blank page, for Mallarmé, trembled with possibility, as calm water or the tight-stretched canvas did for Monet. Its white flatness was not an absence: it was a poetic element, possessing the character of thought. "The intellectual armature of the poem," Mallarmé once wrote, "conceals itself, is present-is active-in the space that surrounds the stanzas and in the white of the paper: a meaningful silence, no less wonderful to compose than the lines themselves." And again: "To conjure up . . . the negated object...
...plot: a voyage to America. "What's the use of emigrating from France? I'm emigrating from the world," he declared. Another storm followed him to sea; he had himself lashed to the mast and shouted his delight to the elements. His fellow passengers thought him mad-and they may have been right...
...sheep thought of the black sheep in Aparkside, and got upset, and thought of how the council ignored the fact that they had all asked for Vard to sell its rocks in Aparkside but they didn't, and then they thought of how the fox and the bear and the duck always ignored what they wanted, and they got very upset. So they got together and formed the United Flock, and marched on Derek the Duck's own pond, and baaaaed loudly and sang black sheep songs, and asked Derek to come out and discuss the rocks with them...