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A corporate party-planner explains that potato bars, which feature "martini glasses filled with whipped mashed potatos and accompanied by an assortment of toppings," are declining in popularity, which astonishes me, because I'd never heard of such a thing in the first place.
It astonishes me that Ann Douglas, in "Psycho Dramas," her review of the Sam Tanenhaus biography of Whittaker Chambers, acknowledges that Chambers was right about everything, but still maintains the old liberal condescension for this perennially maligned figure.
He interrogates hostile (read "liberal") witnesses with a chilliness that astonishes congressional staffers.
It often astonishes me that publishers--at whose door such shortcomings must be laid--can put out books that contain a huge amount of valuable information, then effectively deny access to it by providing, in the worst case, no index at all and, in many instances, an improverished index.
It astonishes me that so many of the bright people in Silicon Valley are capable of understanding things like quantum tunneling and Boolean algebra but are incapable of understanding history or the future.