"It said a lot of things," she said, "because I was very upset about how Americans couldn't imagine what it was like to be something else, to be something else and proud of it."
"I see."
"But there was one sentence they kept coming back to again and again in the loyalty hearing," sighed Minton. " 'Americans,' " he said, quoting his wife's letter to the Times, " ' are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.' "
