Word: addisonian
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...have it, that an infection stemming from it almost killed him after his spinal operation in 1954. Nichols bases his conclusion on an article he came across in the November 1955 Archives of Surgery, in which J.F.K.'s surgeon, Dr. James A. Nicholas, describes his preparations for an "Addisonian crisis" in an unnamed 37-year-old man who underwent spinal surgery at Manhattan's Hospital for Special Surgery on Oct. 21, 1954-the same day and the same hospital where 37-year-old John Kennedy underwent the same operation...
...final volume of Irving Brant's massive biography begins as Madison is leading the U.S. into the War of 1812. In the five previous volumes, Brant argued energetically and effectively that Madison was the forgotten Founding Father, a man dehumanized by historians because of his "intellectual powers, his Addisonian style of political writing and his concentration on public affairs." As proof that he had a more human side, Brant even dug up some mildly salacious poems that Madison had written at Princeton. In his present volume, Brant claims that Madison was also a strong President-and trips over...
Truth & Truisms. The chief pleasure of Ben Franklin during these years was journalism, and it is Franklin the journalist who dominates this book. There are the Addisonian "Silence Dogood" letters with their gently satiric barbs at Harvard College, bits of local gossip, humorous anecdotes, and a masterful and intricate essay on the value of a paper currency. In the profoundest sense, Franklin began a lifelong dialogue with his fellow Americans on their democratic destiny ("In those wretched Countries where a Man cannot call his Tongue his own, he can scarce call any Thing else his own"). But entertainment always...
...assorted personages customarily assembled for "one location" stories-a sour-tongued missionary, an old lady with a lapdog, a U. S. gambler, a German opium dealer who seems to suffer from chilblains, an oriental trollop, a half-breed Chinese named Henry Chang, a British Army surgeon with an Addisonian turn of speech. In the up-to-date habit of Transatlantic, Union Depot and Grand Hotel, they are all inhabiting a train of luxurious Pullmans bound from Peiping to Shanghai. When the train stops at a way station, Henry Chang turns out to be a revolutionary general. He holds the surgeon...
...gathered from this account, and rightly so, that the author has the urbanity of a humorist. But this urbanity, an Addisonian touch of gentility, does not, as might be thought, drag the statements of the writer down to a mere Thetorical smoothness. He does what he sets out to do, and does it with literary excellence...
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