Word: authority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arrogant and superstitious, Harry Sinclair liked to drill in cemeteries or places where blackjacks grew, created a $700 million empire.* Haroldson L. Hunt, who now commands a $600 million empire, was a professional gambler, writes Author Knowles, who got started in oil with an Arkansas lease that he won in a poker game, struck a 15-million-bbl. field in Louisiana after a poker-playing pal had a dream that it contained...
...this detailed and heavily documented book, Author Lately Thomas is concerned with Aimee's vanishing and the chaotic aftermath that reached a level of foolishness seldom matched even in that era of wonderful nonsense...
Accidental Overdose. Aimee went free after a year's uproar that brought political ruin to nearly all her opponents. Her alleged lover remained a gentleman to the last, stoutly insisting that the lady who trysted with him at Carmel was not Aimee. Author Thomas ends his book with a chapter telling what happened to all concerned in the case-all, that is, except Aimee and her immediate family. The record: after wrangling with her mother, her daughter Roberta and her fellow evangelists, Aimee died in her son Rolf's arms in 1944 as a result, said a coroner...
...trigger of a gun"; women's handkerchiefs fluttering from every balcony; grand carriages pulling aside to allow a princess in "working-class petticoats" to lead past a troop of volunteers. And Angelo himself was an actor in the play-without knowing it. Men, argues French Author Giono, can achieve real ends only by being theatrically inspired-and cold, cunning leaders take care to pile on theater aplenty...
...Author Giono's theme is as complicated as it is fascinating. Most of the characters think they are acting like real people, but they are in fact propelled by theatrical impulses, and are acting out a glamorous melodrama entitled "Liberty"; as a result, it is often impossible for the reader to know what is actually happening. Nor does Author Giono try much to clarify this Pirandelloesque confusion, which he obviously regards as a principal factor of human life-fantastic but unresolvable. Impossible to plumb in small details, The Straw Man, with its superbly painted backdrops of Italian cities...