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...four and my most vivid recollection of the event was my impression of the airplane as I first saw it from our upstairs dining-room window. The Curtiss pusher type, with its framework fuselage, looked from sideview exactly like a giant safety...
...lacks, nonetheless, the sharp tongue and unforgiving eye of a Gore Vidal or a Eugene McCarthy, both of whom disliked Kennedy intensely. Some, but not all the warts are there. One suspects, oddly enough, that Bobby might look even better with all his blemishes. Still, the portrait is vivid, and the Kennedy who emerges is likely to be a new man to many who thought they knew him. For nearly five years he was a standard by which other American politicians were judged. American Journey illustrates how much he is missed. Gerald Clarke...
Honor to the Bride is an excellent example of the "nonfiction novel"-the literary genre Truman Capote regrets ever having invented. The plot complications are as intricate as an arabesque. They entangle myriad relatives, neighbors, judges, seers and policemen, each sketched with a few vivid strokes, all involved yet all laughing at the convoluted action...
...rarely that when it does, it defies all our expectations, all our pretentious preconceptions, all our prejudices. Elizabeth Bishop caters to no one, except to the careful reader. Her poems are not easy, and they make no attempt to be popular. I myself find them so vivid, so intensely compressed that I can only read a little at a time. But Miss Bishop's poems are not consciously difficult by any means; they are almost too clear to look at. She is the least esoteric of poets: when she speaks, she speaks to us all out of her own peculiar...
...German celebration of the fall of France in 1940, Bonhoeffer gave a Nazi salute in a café and urged Bethge to his feet as well: "Raise your arm! Are you crazy? We shall have to run risks now, but not for that salute!" Bethge describes Bonhoeffer's vivid disappointment after a visit to Sweden in 1942, where he asked Anglican Bishop G.K.A. Bell for Allied assurances that could have encouraged an early coup d'état in Germany. But the British, committed to Germany's unconditional surrender, refused to offer any such assurances...