The sum of a million facts is not the truth.

The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.

The colors of the underwater rock [are] as pale and delicate as those in the wardrobe of an 18th-century marchioness.

Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.

But there are no loners. No man lives in a void. His every act is conditioned by his time and his society.

Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945.

An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.