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6 Conspiracy Hysteria: Friday evening, it looks like it might be safe to turn on the television, since the day's news has featured, of all things, reticence.
Over the next decade, I made my biographer's rounds, like the postman deterred neither by sleet nor snow--nor by occasional emanations of reticence or frostiness from my subject--from the routine (often a fascinating routine) of poring over his unpublished manuscripts in the rare book and manuscript division of the University of Chicago Library; lugging my laptop all over America in quest of high-school classmates, cousins, friends, and lovers of my famously peripatetic subject; driving Avis rental cars into the remotest suburbs of Los Angeles and flying into Buffalo, N.Y., in pursuit of letters in private hands.
Recently, [Dole] has given up his reticence to discuss his war wounds.
But, says the paper, since the building opened with huge cost overruns, there has been tremendous reticence to create a strong visible security presence that would cut down on revenue by discouraging the public from visiting the retail stores, restaurants and convention facilities in the building.
This reticence had rendered the government impotent since its initial meeting last July.