Word: affectionate
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Panelists who back Nixon tend to do so out of respect rather than affection. Says George Hunt, 87, a lifelong Republican from Madison, Wis.: "Nixon is a schemer, a quiet man who hasn't taken the public into his confidence completely. McGovern talks more freely, appealing to young people...
In Washington, where most political memoirists write in the blood of their foes, Harry McPherson is a kind of vegetarian. A Texas liberal who served on both Lyndon Johnson's Senate and White House staffs, McPherson believes in binding wounds, not opening them. He has a refreshing affection for...
Papp is pre-eminently a cultural populist who, despite his affection for serious, cerebral works, sometimes sounds like a Brooklyn-accented Spiro Agnew. Part of the problem with some community theaters, he claims, is that the "sissies"-the elite and the overeducated-are identified with them; his own education stopped...
Roberts is lightly anthropomorphic. But his extraordinary knowledge, affection and descriptive powers irresistibly transform any sympathetic reader over nine into a fox, then turn him loose in the woods to foil dogs, fight with black snakes, chase partridges caught under a crusted snow and escape a forest fire.
Norah (Shirley MacLaine) is rich, divorced, anxious, a woman fighting a losing battle against becoming a matron. A familiar enough character, but one with an odd quirk: Norah has an uncommon affection for her younger brother Joel (Perry King), who lives in a shabby flat in the middle of a...