fulmination

As the jury’s verdict now approaches, for those pundits and pollsters once anticipating that a national moment might be unfolding in lower Manhattan’s criminal courtroom number 1530, there’s now instead a feeling that the outcome – whichever way it goes – may be less of a fulmination and more of a fizzle.

But Democrats have a better response to the California Republican’s tactic than fulmination: They can access the footage themselves.

The great spy novelist was an inveterate letter-writer, and the correspondence gathered here covers his entire life, from the private pains of his school days through his courtship of his first wife, Ann — including letters to her from the Swiss Alps, where, as a member of the Downhill Only Ski Club, he trained British ski racers — to the occasional public fulmination in later life against Big Pharma or disrespectful critics.

They’re wondering whether a company built heavily on a foundation of in-person gatherings, and on the peddling of an inoffensive utopia that largely exists outside racial identity, can be effective in a prolonged period of isolation and fulmination.

This time around, there will be a little fulmination on a few websites that traffic in Christian bile, but, otherwise, “The Book of Longings” is not likely to inspire much newsworthy condemnation.