Word: america
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...together (even if the glue has sometimes been messy), have forged and sustained a civilization before our eyes. Kennedy was headed for a family wedding when he went down. When one of them goes, the ideal of family is at once injured and made intense, and, divorce statistics aside, America holds to that ideal...
...what one thinks, as if one could comprehend a justice system of that magnitude. Milton dealt with his sorrow by projecting his young man into immortality. But he is more persuasive in the phrase "Look homeward Angel," when he asks an angel to turn his pitying gaze on England. America, the country of young hopes, lost something of itself last weekend, and we will deal with it as best...
...point. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis received much deserved praise for the way she raised her children. But John and Caroline deserve credit, as well, for the character they displayed growing up in America's battered, beloved, hated, much chronicled almost-royal family...
...more stab at the heart of America. There is an echo of Greek tragedy about the succession of blows striking a single American family. So many Kennedys have been cruelly cut off before they had fulfilled themselves--Joe Jr., my Harvard classmate, killed in the war; John and Robert, cherished friends, assassinated; two of Robert's sons dead; now John's son, the golden...
...family played such a sustained, gaudily heartbreaking role in America's fantasy life--the longest-running political soap. Eventually--after the LIFE magazine spreads that spun Old Joe's golden children into myth in the '40s and '50s, after Dallas and the keening over Camelot and after Bobby--at last there set in the disillusioned revisionism: all the dark-side stories about Jack's satyriasis and the loathsome way the brothers treated Marilyn. And the myth developed a twin, an antimyth of cheap fraud, of a tribe of photogenic hustlers...