Word: authorizes
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Long before Johnson went on to fulfill that prophecy, and do a bit better, he accumulated a number of scholastic and community achievements. So did Kennedy (Pulitzer Prize author) and Nixon (law school scholarship) and Ford (Eagle Scout). So did Jimmy Carter, who led his high school, was admitted to Admiral Rickover's nuclear fraternity, succeeded in business and local politics...
...road show is called the "I Love America" rally. The author, producer and star is the Rev. Jerry Falwell, 46, a Baptist out of Lynchburg, Va. Back home, Falwell is the hyperactive founder and director of a religious empire that includes a thriving church, schools and charitable and fund-raising programs. Thanks to his Old-Time Gospel Hour, seen on 324 television stations in the U.S., Canada and the Caribbean, he is also one of the top stars of the "electric church." All told, his enterprises employ 950 people and have an annual budget of $56 million...
...lived with in years, and the odd one-night stands with preoccupied actresses; but Paris' routine is as hollow as Philip Marlowe's: the dismal bedsitter, the bottle of whisky, the nagging creditors. What distinguishes his adventures, of which A Comedian Dies is the fifth, is the author's wry observations of Britain's entertainment milieu. Brett has a farceur's eye for crooked agents and egomaniac stars, for performers elbowing their way up or trying to take the slide back down gracefully, for network nitwits, for creative geniuses unsung by anyone but themselves...
John Steinbeck worked hard to turn himself into a genius and he almost made it. His youth was a laborious struggle to find his true voice. But as this first full-scale biography shows, the author flourished for a scant dozen years: from the publication of The Red Pony in 1933 to Cannery...
Such towering works as Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath earned him a Nobel Prize in 1962. But the honor did not bring a revival. Steinbeck declined into illness and disillusion. Kiernan reports that when the author died at 66, in 1968, he "had grudgingly accepted the fact that his own artistic productivity had long ended" - as evidenced by the potboilers that marred his later years: East of Eden and The Winter of Our Discontent...