Of changling Imp—he spoke, no care could rear, / Which backward seemed to orp, from year to year.

The Lensmen are shown, however, as a superior race, with advanced mental and physical powers, and there are few instances when mere humans appear in the stories or comment on these supercharacters.

To read his memoir of those years, Locked in the Cabinet, is to feel the sting experienced by this talented, innovative, and principled small “d” democrat as he was repeatedly shoved aside on economic issues by Rubin, Bentsen, Panetta, and, of course, the grand vizier himself, Alan Greenspan.

He also expressed the opinion that certain sensitive clays derived their properties from the fact that the flaky minerals were arranged in an unstable “cardhouse” fabric.