On the tenth anniversay of President Kennedy's assassination:
"Very little has gone well for us: almost nothing as we would have wished. Not all bad. The high school rhetoric has been knocked out of us: no more torches....Had he lived we would mostly by now be half ashamed and half angry at the too great submission of our own persons to his persona. A wholly dangerous: an infantile thing." November 22, 1973, (page 316)
The high school rhetoric, the torches, the infantile submission to a persona would return
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