Sublime

Dear Dr. Fletcher: We are greatly disturbed by testimony of May 2 to the Rogers Commission that strongly suggests that Morton Thiokol, Inc., and at least one NASA official, have attempted to control the flow of information to the Commission through acts of intimidation and punishment. In evaluating that testimony, it appears that a Morton Thiokol

Curiously, Warren’s early support for the internment of Japanese Americans on the Pacific Coast led southern senators such as Walter George and Richard Russell of Georgia to vigorously support his nomination for chief justice, assuming that Warren would naturally support racial segregation. As for the evacuation, Warren later confessed that he had

He’d be nothing. He wouldn’t even be 571. The real authorities could turn him into anything at all.

The man that the Times article reported as being both “sadder” and “wiser” than when he was first imprisoned went on to construct one of humanity’s darkest regimes, ignited a war that killed tens of millions of people, and engineered the world’s first program of mechanized genocide, making him the last person a reader of the Times should think “was

Mariel appeared as a betrayal on the part of yet another administration, a deal with Fidel Castro, a decision by the Carter people to preserve the status quo in Cuba by siphoning off the momentum of what could have been, in the dreamtime of el exilio, where the betrayal which began with the Kennedy administration continued to the day at hand, a

Privy Councillor Frau Strodtmann, widow of the great surgeon, sat in the lobby day and night like a sentry, armed with her lorgnette. Her wheelchair (the old woman was paralyzed) was the hotel’s undisputed social news desk and, most important, the final court of appeal as to what was proper and what wasn’t—an aggressive, fanatical intelligence