Colonel John Corry was an Irish politician... (wikipedia)
One of the glories of New York is its ethnic food, and only McDonald's and Burger King equalize us all.
His voice is his great weapon. It is not an orator's voice. It is husky, and sometimes it fades to a whisper. Meanwhile, it is extraordinarily intimate. Mr Reagan does not speak to audiences; he speaks to individuals.
His words and music weren't just joined; they were inseparably married.
Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease.
The stars are the great Gothic churches: spires, naves, delicate flying buttresses, massive conventional buttresses, stained glass and grandeur, grandeur, grandeur.
He's still not interviewing other people; he's still interviewing himself.
He bullied, soothed and cajoled. In fact, he's awfully good at what he does, but how one wishes he didn't work quite so hard doing it.
