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DIED. SUSAN ALSOP, 86, Washington doyenne whose dinner parties during the 1960s were attended by the elite of politics, media and diplomacy; in Washington. A descendant of John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the U.S., she grew up in privileged society, dining with Presidents and Prime Ministers. Widowed in 1960, the next year she married her first husband's college roommate, newspaper columnist Joseph Alsop (whom she divorced in 1978). President Kennedy visited their home on Inauguration night, and again in 1962 to meet with two Soviet experts just before the showdown with Moscow over the Cuban missile crisis...
...east of Manchester. "As we continue into the other parts of the city," he says, "we want the same quality of design to be reflected in the places where people live, not just where they work and shop." To prove the point, the Sterling Prize-winning architect Will Alsop is already at work on a master plan for the run-down Cardroom district in north Manchester. After decades in London's shadow, Manchester is growing in confidence - a confidence expressed, as it was in the city's glory days, by demanding the best of its citizens, its leaders...
...novelist who puts himself into his story is either a Postmodernist or uncommonly vain. Vidal is not a Postmodernist, but he probably deserves a place in his chronicle. He knew or met a number of the real, historical people--Eleanor Roosevelt, Joseph Alsop, Tennessee Williams--who move through the pages of The Golden Age. He has been, for the past half-century, an uncommonly public literary figure: a near ubiquitous television guest and, twice, an unsuccessful candidate for elective office. Living well is Vidal's revenge, which he does much of each year at La Rondinaia, his spectacular house...
...novelist who puts himself into his story is either a Postmodernist or uncommonly vain. Vidal is not a Postmodernist, but he probably deserves a place in his chronicle. He knew or met a number of the real, historical people - Eleanor Roosevelt, Joseph Alsop, Tennessee Williams - who move through the pages of "The Golden Age." He has been, for the past half-century, an uncommonly public literary figure: a near ubiquitous television guest and, twice, an unsuccessful candidate for elective office. Living well is Vidal's revenge, which he does much of each year at La Rondinaia, his spectacular house...
...January 1974 the columnist Joseph Alsop declared, "I have begun to think that the '70s are the very worst years since the history of life began on earth..." The decade seemed to be a convergence of ghastly fashions (ultrasuedes, double-knit bellbottoms and medallions, blow-dry haircuts), exotic self-esteem indulgences (est, Gestalt, bioenergetics, Arica, Reichian therapy, Krishna consciousness) and assorted bad ideas (disco, Erich von Daniken's cosmology) with such larger historical dysfunctions as double-digit inflation, riots on the gas lines, Watergate and the losing of the Vietnam...