Conservatives like Palin and Reagan and others do seem to love the series, but so do people of … - Judith Thurman

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Grand telegraphic discovery today … Transmitted vocal sounds for the first time. . . With some further modification I hope we may be enabled to distinguish … the “timbre” of the sound. Should this be so, conversation viva voce by telegraph will be a fait accompli.

Judith Thurman

Conservatives like Palin and Reagan and others do seem to love the series, but so do people of all political stripes and backgrounds. I speak about the series' "radiant simplicity. "

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