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...world unto itself. On entering it Agee became part of its particular ethos. CIA officers call the CIA the "Company," and according to Agee it is run like a clubby corporation. Much is kept secret, but everyone is part of keeping it secret, and it is all rather exciting at the outset, After serving a tour in the Air Force while a CIA employee, Agee completed his training as a CIA officer--knowledgeable in everything from karate to secrete handwriting. In December of 1960 he was sent to his first "station": Quito, Ecuador...
...waited patiently for the Lord," Priscilla Cushman was standing at the lectern in Appleton Chapel, wearing a solemn black robe and leading Morning Prayers: "and he inclined unto me, and heard...
John Kenneth Galbraith implies that corporations have already killed Adam Smith's self-regulating market. In his view, the larger a corporation grows the more it can escape from the workings of the market to become a law unto itself, thus paralyzing Adam Smith's "invisible hand." According to Galbraith, large companies can set prices more or less independently of demand, produce what they rather than consumers want, and in effect ram the products down consumers' throats by the power of advertising. If corporations cannot defy the market, they can sometimes resist it for a long time when it refuses...
...agency's complicity but nothing that would implicate any President. Still, in the singular relationship of the agency to presidential authority, evidence of a CIA assassination plot would seem to implicate one President or the other, even both, unless, of course, the CIA had become a law unto itself. What the Rockefeller commission report revealed was "in all likelihood just the tip of the iceberg," according to Church. The real likelihood is that so far as the actual assassinations are concerned, there was never much more to this floating body than a deceptively shimmering tip. Castro, however, was another...
...favorite text because of their outstanding beauty and emotional depth. In fact, the Lamentation remains a standard church form for use around Good Friday. Jeremiah's sense of suffering captures the appropriate Christian feeling at that time of year: "Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow." In an age when religion and music were inextricably bound, many of the great masters created vocal settings that rival the text in beauty...