Mark Rudman

“on opera singer Marian Anderson and her fight against racial segregation. “I often get terribly discouraged,” Marlon wrote, “when I think that with all the extensive techniques we have at hand to communicate with each other, so remarkably little is accomplished.” He feared the problem was not with the technology, but rather, the fact “that the only thing most of us want to communicate is hatred and distruction [sic].” Murrow’s program gave him hope, Marlon said. “God knows it’s hard enough to communicate with one’s self, much less anybody else,” but at least Murrow was making an effort. The broadcaster responded by asking Marlon to guest-host his show while he was away. Scheduling conflicts meant that Marlon couldn’t accept his offer, but he hoped”
― William J. Mann, The Contender: The Story of Marlon Brando

“seemed”
― Mark Rudman, Realm of Unknowing: Meditations on Art, Suicide, and Other Transformations

“The”
― Hermione Lee, Tom Stoppard: A Life

“More and more, he relied on alcohol to numb himself from the pain of his relationship with Estelle, his anxiety about Meta, the difficulties of writing, and his inability to confront crises that inevitably came his way, such as the deaths of friends and family. Certainly the death of Dean continued to flood him with guilt over his part in encouraging his brother in his career as an aviator and, indeed, selling him the plane that had brought him down.”
― Jay Parini, One Matchless Time: A Life of William Faulkner