Word: authority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Until recently, few city leaders dared to criticize Barry publicly. Many blame the divisive question of race for the silence. "What he creates is a Teflon coating," explains Washington Post columnist Juan Williams, author of Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965. "If you're white, you can't say it. If you're black, you can't say it. In this town, who does that leave?" Race has helped and hindered Barry. Explains friend Carl Johnson: "He's always operating off the backdrop that he's a black male, that he's not supposed...
...unpublished memoirs they had squirreled away in despair. Victims of the Great Terror and their friends and relatives told him of their personal ordeals. A host of young researchers volunteered to hunt for Stalin-era documents in the official archives to which Medvedev had been denied access. After the author's twin brother Zhores, a distinguished biochemist and author, was exiled in 1973, he managed to send Roy from Britain scores of important works of Western Sovietology that were unavailable in Russia...
...LIFE OF GRAHAM GREENE, VOL. 1: 1904-1939 by Norman Sherry (Viking; $29.95). Greene may be the most elusive big fish still swimming in the shrinking pond of English letters, but this fascinating, obsessively detailed biography hooks him solidly. Hardly a question about the author goes unanswered, and Greene's best years, those of The Power and the Glory and The End of the Affair, are yet to come...
Along the way, Cornwell's grumpy sources also manage to portray the Vatican as "a palace of gossipy eunuchs" and "a sea of brilliant bitchery." Last week a Vatican official derided Cornwell's findings as "lamentably gossipy." But disturbing as the author's conclusions may be, not everyone was displeased. "It's much better to appear a little ridiculous," said Vittoria Marigonda, secretary to Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, "than to be seen as a bunch of murderers...
...effective smear has at its core an outrageous charge that would be devastating if true. The author must be both coy and cowardly: he must make the charge stick while retaining deniability. Although Goodin, Atwater's friend of a decade, took the fall, the tactic bore the unmistakable Atwater stamp. As Bush's 1988 campaign manager, Atwater specialized in character assassination: last summer Michael Dukakis was dogged by rumors that he had been treated for depression. In a similar incident in 1980, Atwater was managing the campaign of South Carolina Congressman Floyd Spence when a reporter asked Spence's Democratic...