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Mead, 26, a recent Yale Law School graduate, is at pains to present a life but at a loss to give it meaning. Instead, his first book invokes appraisals of prominent blacks from Jesse Jackson ("With Joe Louis we had made it from the guttermost to the uttermost") to Conservative Sociologist Thomas Sowell ("Louis was a continuing lesson to white America that to be black did not mean to be a clown or a lout"). But it was another boxer who put the man in true perspective. Muhammad Ali remarked after the funeral, "Howard Hughes dies, with all his billions...
...subjected to a peculiar, unremitting strain. He knew that every day everyone he encountered expected to leave the presence of the King with a higher heart and more determined to win the War. It was no uncommon thing in France to hear men worn to the uttermost say, 'If the King can stick this War, so can I, God bless...
...favorite.) I am happy to report that I observed incidents not only of Bible-verse spouting but also of sharing and Golden-Ruling galore. Christine Kirkpatrick, 8, told me she understood Psalm 139: 9-10, "If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will hold me fast." She explained, "It means we are never alone. So if there is a new kid at school this fall, I'm going to try and be his friend and introduce him to people...
That goes not only for the sea's uttermost depths but also for the still mysterious middle waters three or four miles down, and even for the "shallows" a few hundred feet deep. For while the push to reach the very bottom of the sea has fired the imagination of some of the world's most daring explorers, it is just the most visible part of a broad international effort to probe the oceans' depths. It's a high-sea adventure fraught with danger, and--because of the expense--with controversy as well...
...arousal intensified by social constraint: "You can't come into the room without my feeling all over me a ripple of flame." Writhing under Fullerton's sporadic indifference, she could summon up reserves of anger and pride: "What you wish, apparently, is to take of my life the inmost & uttermost that a woman -- a woman like me -- can give, for an hour, now & then, when it suits you; & when the hour is over, to leave me out of your mind & out of your life as a man leaves a companion who has accorded him a transient distraction. I think...