Word: authority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...settings contribute to this consistent sense of spaciousness: farms and small towns in the author's native Canada, places where change comes grudgingly or hardly at all, where the annual opening of a summer home confirms continuity: "Everything was always the same. Here was the boring card game that taught you the names of Canadian wildflowers; here was the Scrabble set with the Y and one of the U's missing." Such environments do not preclude drama or excitement; they lend individual events a scale of history...
...feature film he wrote and starred in, bottomed out at the box office. A 1983 tour with his old partner Art Garfunkel was a nostalgic about-face. Hearts and Bones, in 1983, did not even offer up one high-charting song, a novel situation indeed for the author of such classics as Bridge Over Troubled Water and Mrs. Robinson. What was needed, clearly, was something a little different. It was called Gumboots...
...author of "What's in a Name?" (ESSAY, Aug. 18) should not play footloose with the truth. "The famous Miss Hogg" was named Ima by her father not out of cruelty but in honor of his deceased brother, who had earlier published an epic poem of the Civil War, The Fate of Marvin. The heroine was Ima, a paragon of womanhood, equally disposed to nurse the wounded soldiers of North and South. Miss Hogg did not "grow up scowling" but was a good-humored woman of gracious mien and poise, who because of her untiring benefactions to the people...
...seemed hopelessly out of it: clean-cut, unashamed of his hitch as a Navy officer, and about as relevant to the presumptive radicalizing of America as Howdy Doody. When Nixon resigned in 1974, David faded from view again. Few could have predicted that he would reappear as the author of a massive and major history of his grandfather's role in World...
...that is what has happened. The fame of its subject and, to a lesser extent, its writer practically guarantees best-sellerdom, but Eisenhower: At War 1943-1945 hardly qualifies as a popularized book. Those seeking scandals or secrets will be disappointed. Author Eisenhower notes, for example, rumors of a wartime affair between Ike and his chauffeur-secretary Kay Summersby. The matter is then quickly dropped: "Eisenhower was under tremendous pressures and in need of company. Beyond this, the truth was known only by them, and both are gone." Instead of titillating, David is interested in seeing the war through...