Word: authority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such examples of institutional strength help offset the Justices' idiosyncrasies. "You sure can get the impression from the book that the court is an institution that works," says Co-Author Woodward. "There is strong evidence both ways. But we made a scrupulous effort to be non-judgmental." Indeed, the authors use a "just-the-facts-Ma'am" style; though the facts are not attributed, they novelistically include the Justices' innermost thoughts. In the book's final pages, Justice Stevens ponders his first year (1976) on the court. He finds himself "accustomed to watching his colleagues make...
MARRIED. Kurt Vonnegut, 57, novelist-laureate of the counterculture generation (Slaughterhouse-Five, Jailbird); and his companion of nine years, Jill Krementz, 39, a Manhattan photographer-author (A Very Young Dancer); he for the second time, she for the first; in New York City...
...itself. Their lithographs re-created urban and rural growth, disasters, the opening of the West and a vast anthology of occupations and pastimes. The Great Book of Currier & Ives' America by Walton Rawls (Abbeville Press; 488 pages; $85) is ponderous to heft but impossible to put down. Author Rawls' text is a lively history of these remarkable illustrators, their entrepreneurial triumphs and their battles with an alarming new enemy, the photograph. Better still are the more than 400 illustrations, culled from the 7,000-plus - lithographs that Currier & Ives issued...
...pile rugs that have proved to be one of the best -though specialized-hedges against inflation in recent years. Kilims by Yanni Petsopoulos with Michael Franses (Rizzoli; 394 pages; $85) gives these weavings their proper due. It should be welcomed by both collectors and decorators, the former because the author has provided clear and much needed scholarship on origins and techniques, the latter because of the rare and glorious examples of kilims from Anatolia, the Caucasus and Persia that are reproduced in the book's spectacular color photos...
...only thing great about Katherine Graham portrayed here is her ability to create "myth that lived on as history, ad truth"--in other words, to lie and get away with it. How does the author support such an audacious accusation? Davis disdains hard facts and instead relies on her own presumptuous brand of psychology. "Once a widow, always a widow" Davis's primer seems to say; and Graham's pruported insecurities are accordingly traced to her prolonged grief over husband Philip's suicide. She plays the party line because she craves the approval of her Presidents...