After Two Years Studying What Rewrite Men

Children Rarely Want To Know Who Their Parents Were Before They Were Parents, And When Age Finally Stirs Their Curiosity, There Is No Parent Left To Tell Them.

Gerald Boyd Was A Classic Specimen Of The Self-made Man. Born Poor, He Worked And Studied His Way Up Out Of Poverty Under The Guidance Of His Widowed Grandmother.

Reporters Thrive On The World's Misfortune. For This Reason They Often Take An Indecent Pleasure In Events That Dismay The Rest Of Humanity.

Though Americans Talk A Good Deal About The Virtue Of Being Serious, They Generally Prefer People Who Are Solemn Over People Who Are Serious. In Politics, The Rare Candidate Who Is Serious, Like Adlai Stevenson, Is Easily Overwhelmed By One Who Is Solemn, Like General Eisenhower. This Is Probably Because It Is Hard For Most People To Recognize Seriousness, Which Is Rare, Especially In Politics, But Comfortable To Endorse Solemnity, Which Is As Commonplace As Jogging.

Those Who Remember Washington's Cold War Culture In The 1980s Will Recall The Shocked Reactions To Reagan's Intervention. People Interested In Foreign Policy Were Astonished When In 1985 He Met Alone At Geneva - Alone, Not A Single Strategic Thinker At His Elbow! - With The Soviet Communist Master Gorbachev.