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...site of John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry. The President leaped up on the rocks, put field glasses to his eyes to peer into the woods and gazed on the weathered monuments. Was Lee trying to save ammunition at Gettysburg? he asked. Where was the wheatfield? How far did Pickett have to come? (Nearly a mile.) "Why Lee did not bring his generals together that night, I'll never understand...
Much of Velva still clings to Sevareid -his wheatfield-flat monotone, his Scandinavian ponderousness, his Midwestern faith that folks can get along if they listen to each other, and especially his chapbook belief in America's innate strengths. "No other great power has the confidence and stability to expose and face its own blunders," he wrote last year in a new introduction to his 1946 autobiography, Not So Wild a Dream. "We are a turbulent society but a stable republic. The mind goes blank at the thought of a world without one such power...
...eyes, and the photo's depth of field is so small that the tip of the nose blurs, and one can see as many differences of sharpness in Close's beard or Linda's tangle of rusty curls as among the stalks of a wheatfield. These blurs and elisions are rendered with exquisite accuracy...
...sorority system at its worst." In a college that was then geared to producing Rotarians and garden-club members, her intellectual gifts were a handicap. Her atrocious clothes did not help: to a Kappa rushing party, she wore a dress of her own design; it suggested a wheatfield with poppies. Her sponsor turned her back at the sight, and Margaret found the evening "strangely confusing" because she did not then know that everyone had been given a signal to ignore her. The ostracism lasted all year, and for the first time Mead learned that both those who reject and those...
...married, and that made me feel mortal." Most groundlings trace the beginning of their phobia to an especially hairy flight. Jackie Gleason swore off flying in the 1940s when the plane on which he was a California-to-New York passenger lost two engines and landed in a Midwest wheatfield. Old Trouper Jimmy Durante also dates his dislike of flying to "the worst flight ever" some 20 years ago. He still flies, because "I gotta. But when it gets choppy, I say, 'Oh, my God,' and hold to whoever is sitting nearest." Such people get little satisfaction from...