Word: booked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taste & Judgment. In Venice Observed, Author McCarthy dealt with a flashier subject, and it was the more fascinating book, but Florence supplies a lack that most visitors feel: it is an exercise in taste and judgment...
...Florentines "the fifth element." The McCarthy heroes are, of course, the artists. Her descriptions are sharp and unorthodox (of Il Rosso's Moses Defending the Daughters of Jethro: "The half-carnival atmosphere of an insane asylum or of a brothel during a police raid"). Together with the book's superb photographs, such comments have the effect of giving entirely fresh life to tourist memories. The Stones of Florence is in the end a solid tribute to the city and its people past and present, an estimate achieved without the least sentimentality, and free of solemn artiness. Some readers...
...when Price's comeuppance arrives-wine, women and the SEC have made him a pauper-the reader finds it hard to believe that the man is truly shattered. This may be because an ex-wife gallantly bails him out with a $1,000,000 gift. At book's end, Craig broods, in italics: "How very rich he'd be if he owned anything except the million dollars waiting for him in Switzerland...
...candle, burning at both ends, is printed on the cover of Poor No More. It may be intended to symbolize the state of society, or of the book's hero, but it might just as well represent brightly burning Author Ruark. Since World War II, besides his syndicated column, old Reporter Ruark (Washington Daily News) has churned out magazine articles, movie scripts and half a dozen books, including the bloody Mau Mau bestseller, Something of Value (TIME, May 2, 1955). All this has taken its toll-several million dollars after taxes, Ruark estimates happily...
...Scripps-Howard newspapers, because "I have a hunch that 99 million natives are going to make noise in the Union around Christmas, and I want to be there." In his hushpuppy accent (a defense mechanism, he claims), Bob Ruark adds: "You show me a guy writes a column or book and ain't a ham and I'll show you a bad writer. Man, I'm ham inside, outside and all around...