Word: boasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...career in painting, his daughter tells us, 'as if all those talents and inclinations which, passed on for generations, germinated in [the] father ... now broke through energetically in the son.' The great pathologist Carl von Rokitansky had his paternal dreams of glory fulfilled when he could boast of his four sons that they were divided in their careers between singing and medicine: 'Two howl and - two heal...
...detailed account, but it is not investigative reporting in the Murrow or Bernstein or Woodward tradition. It is not Upton Sinclair muckraking--in fact, it veers close to the type of muckraking that made the word unstylish. It is truly "Inside the Supreme Court," as the jacket cover boasts. But 468 pages later, the boast sounds pretty empty...