Volume 3, Number 6 · November 5, 1964
Failing Safe
By James R. Newman
The Journals of David E. Lilienthal
by David E. Lilienthal
Harper & Row, 666 pp., $10.00 each
Instinctively one distrusts a dialogue with the self which is designed to be overheard. It is a performance. And except in the hands of a great performer, it is likely to be a bad performance. I find most diaries dull. 'These are of the books,' Charles Lamb said, 'I give away.'
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