Katherine Dunn Quotes
The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power.
Vorda, Allan. Face to Face: Interviews with Contemporary Novelists. Rice University Press, 1993.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
In 1902 there was a national crises brought about by a coal strike. At that time the president had no legal powers in such a matter. Lodge urged President Theodore Roosevelt to take a symbolic public stand on the strike issues. He did so, and it led to a successful arbitration of the dispute. It was one of the first examples of presidential "jawboning:"
A large part of German propaganda was directed not only to Germans and the Axis, but one target was Englishmen and Americans. One objective was to try and cause strains in the amazingly strong British-American Alliance. In this cartoon Roosevelt—the large adult figure—is leading the small child, Churchill, by the hand. Many British were sensitive about this possibility.
Katherine Karen Dunn was an American best-selling novelist, journalist, voice artist, radio personality, book reviewer, and poet from Portland, Oregon. She is best known for the novel Geek Love (1989). She was also a prolific writer on boxing.
