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...with it the role of the state. Government intrudes; government retreats; the state meddles with morality, then washes its hands and withdraws. The Gilded Age gave way to the muscular governmental incursions of the Age of Reform. The Roaring Twenties gave rise to the straitlaced Hays Office of the '30s. The buttoned-up '50s ushered in the unbuttoned '60s. And, most recently, a reaction to the sexual revolution spurred a spirited crusade to reassert family values that helped sweep Ronald Reagan into the presidency...
...failure." When Lloyd was ranked 24th, he married the top-rated woman player, Evert. Before long, like Claude Rains or Mr. Thatcher, he began to disappear (to 331st). After Evert spoke publicly of losing respect for her vanishing husband, Lloyd fought his way back into the 30s and even to the quarterfinals of the U.S. Open. But his passion was not for winning. "If I wanted it more, maybe I would have gone higher. Maybe I didn't have the champion's mentality of sacrificing everything to one aim. If that's bad, that...
...brought him only slightly more confirmation than doing it at the French the year before. Maybe McEnroe, 27, is missed by Lendl, 26, most of all. Without a definitive adversary, his achievements are vaguely undefined and his profile subtly incomplete. "Lendl is a great server and a great volleyer," '30s Champion Fred Perry has noted. "But he's not a great server and volleyer." He could put it all together this week, charm included...
...launch. The seals had long been flagged as a problem that could be aggravated by low temperatures. Yet George Hardy, Marshall's deputy director of science and engineering, declared that he was "appalled" by Thiokol's reasoning that the cape's cold weather, predicted to be in the 30s at lift-off, should lead to a delay. In the now notorious teleconference, four Thiokol vice presidents at first concurred with the fears of their engineers. But when they heard the NASA objections, they decided to take a "management" vote in which the engineers seated beside them had no voice. Even...
Margaret's written apologia to her son forms one vivid strand of this intricately interwoven novel. She and Pinkham had flourished during the 1960s. It was a time of adolescent hope, particularly for people entering their 30s and 40s. She writes, "Your father, think of it, Bayard, was rebuilding slums. There was to be warmth and light, Shakespeare and the beat of African drums . . . Your mother wrapped in a slave's headcloth above a bastard dashiki. French champagne with grits. See the good of it before you laugh...