Word: authority
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this book because Richard T. Button '52--men's World, men's Olympic, men's European, men's North American, and national men's figure skating champion has been included. His story is told in one of 17 chapters, covering the activities of three dozen athletes who, in the author's opinion, did something noteworthy during the 1948 season. Waldman, a sportswriter for the Christian Science Monitor, is sufficiently familar with his subjects, but his lack of imagination and his love of acntimentality make his accounts trite and often contrived...
...author handles his material adequately, albeit not very colorfully. This is noticeable especially in his account of the Olympic games--the facts are all there but they don't make for stimulating reading half a year later. But even with all the right times and batting averages, the book contains several flaws...
...Author Roosevelt's memoir has little of the high historic excitement of Robert Sherwood's Roosevelt and Hopkins and none of the hero-worshiping quality of Grace Tully's F.D.R., My Boss; she just runs along easily as though she were showing the family album to some old friends. Yet every few pages she comes to a striking, familiar snapshot of the great ones among whom she and her husband moved. Random shots...
...Author Firbank also had his moments of practical horse sense, such as they were. He always, for instance, packed a large quantity of good Welsh coal in his traveling trunk, as a precaution against inclement weather...
...backwoods family at last achieve their dearest ambition-to gate-crash high society in Cuna-Cuna City. Under its dancing, smiling surface run strong undercurrents of human sadness and disillusion. It is Firbank at his best. ¶Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli (1926). In which Catholic Author Firbank dwells with orgiastic relish on the sexual practices of a worldly Spanish churchman. Not for family reading. ¶The Artificial Princess (1934) returns to the favored Firbank theme of palace love; but its fluffy, frail ingredients, languidly mixed and half-heartedly baked, only give it the hurt look of a tortured...