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Walter Duranty Helped To Turn The Monster Stalin Into A World Figure And A Hero Of The Leftistwestern Intelligentsia By Defending The Bloodbath Of The Soviet Union From Its Critics In The Now Famous: "you Can't Make An Omelette Without Breaking Eggs.

Never Forget The Power Of Silence, That Massively Disconcerting Pause Which Goes On And On And May Last Induce An Opponent To Babble And Backtrack Nervously.

Handwriting Is Civilization's Casual Encephalogram.

Music Is The Way Our Memories Sing To Us Across Time.

Would It Be Anything Like A Literary Disaster If Gore Vidal Were To Fall Silent? Easy. No. In Fact, There Is Something To Be Said For The Idea.