Word: bashfulness
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THIS DICHOTOMY could form the book's badly-needed central theme but Dickson unfortunately bumbles. Some of his anecdotes are telling and funny: Fiedler's annual conversation with the New England Provision Company before his end-of-season bash always went: "Hello Sam? Fiedler, here. It's time for that goddam party again." But others do not appear to deserve their build-up, in spite of Dickson's chatty "he told me" style. Neither the maestro nor the family and colleagues Dickson interviewed were strong on bon mots. Certain points simply beg for detail. Dickson lauds Fiedler's genuis...
...student had doubts about the number of events he could attend in a heavy schedule of more than 30 events in eight days: "I'll go to the ice cream bash, but after that I don't know...
...others, the aggressive display of wealth and exuberance seemed perfectly justified. America was ready for a party, they argued, and since it was privately financed, Reagan and the Republicans were entitled to give any kind of bash they felt like-and could afford. Said Inaugural Co-Chairman Robert Gray: "There weren't any Government funds. These were citizens who wanted to celebrate. Just because we're conservative doesn't mean we should run around in sack cloth and ashes when we want to celebrate." Added Special Trade Representative Bill Brock: "It happens only once every four years...
...intimate dinner party will remain her preferred mode of entertainment, but when the Reagans throw an official bash, Nancy will bring back hard liquor, pomp and circumstance. Ballroom dancing, which both Reagans enjoy, will return to vogue, and the entertainment will be cheery; husband and wife relish wholesome groups of young people singing in rousing harmony. Old Hollywood friends, such as Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Stewart and Charlton Heston, will turn up at state dinners and public ceremonies, some of which will be white...
...silo has become something likely to house a nuclear missile. But even in the 1920s, the Agrarians were behind their times. Words Like honor, magnanimity and Tradition with a capital T rise from the pages of I'll Take My Stand. In the midst of the noisy bash of the jazz age, the writers deplore the decline of "manners, conversation, hospitality, sympathy, family life, romantic love." While Yankee highbrows like E.E. Cummings and Edmund Wilson were discovering the seven lively arts, the Agrarians were frowning on movies and imploring the yeomen of Tennessee to switch off their Atwater Kent...