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  • The outlook is not directly spelled out in her first book, but it is gleanable in what she barely mentions (Vietnam, Martin Luther King) and in some of what she does highlight: John Wayne's admirable confidence, the pathos of the hippies and of the atomization that produced them, the pious platitudes of a hubristic, high-rolling liberal think tank that was famous in 1967 but now seems like an exotic fossil.

    The Unclosed Circle Kerr, Sarah 2007

  • It contains shifty untruths from those who collude, and represses basic factual material, gleanable from aides or from the public record, from the side of those who do not.

    Aural History 2003

  • It contains shifty untruths from those who collude, and represses basic factual material, gleanable from aides or from the public record, from the side of those who do not.

    Aural History 2003

  • "I remember the simile, for I thought it a very absurd one -- as if fields would lie gleanable for generations!"

    Thomas Wingfold, Curate George MacDonald 1864

  • "I remember the simile, for I thought it a very absurd one -- as if fields would lie gleanable for generations!"

    Thomas Wingfold, Curate V1 George MacDonald 1864

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