Word: authority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stones of Florence, by Mary McCarthy. With taste and judgment, the author provides an eloquent appreciation of a magnificent city...
...Author Dunham states in a note to the reader that what she has written is not an autobiography, but the book's heroine is a girl named Katherine Dunham who grew up near Chicago, as did the author, the daughter of an American Negro man and a light-skinned French Canadian woman. Albert Dunham, the sullen, tormented father, dominates the story. Ambitious and immature, he marries beautiful Fanny June Taylor, a well-to-do woman many years older than he, and for a time is able to regard himself as a man of property. But not long after Katherine...
...Author Dunham writes movingly but without bitterness about the struggle of the children to break free of the father, and about the genteel shabbiness of lower-middle-class Negro life. A set piece on the well-calculated emotionalism of a Bible-banging preacher could hardly be done better. And the reader feels sharply Katherine's humiliation and despair when her neurotically protective father insists on being her dancing partner at parties. For violence and despair, the Dunham family wars approach Eugene O'Neill's. When the last blow has been struck-backhanded, across the mouth-and Katherine...
...Wisdom of the West, by Bertrand Russell. With spirit and skill, the 87-year-old author accomplishes the feat of compressing the history of Western philosophy into 320 pages...
...Liberation of the Philippines, by Samuel Eliot Morison. The 13th volume in the author's massive U.S. naval history of World War II describes the fury of Japan's kamikaze attacks, takes the fighting through the summer...