Word: camelot
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...years later, those days seem like the days of Camelot--a dreamy part of a long and distant past. Last season, the squad finished a lowly 4-9-2, good for last in the league. And this year, it fared little better, going 5-8-3 overall and 3-2 in league play...
...bird sanctuary. There she would quietly entertain old friends like the author William Styron and the influential Washington lawyer Vernon Jordan and Lady Bird Johnson. Each Labor Day weekend, Onassis would have all the Kennedys from Hyannis Port over for a picnic. "It was like the old days at Camelot," says one who was there. Did Onassis still feel like a Kennedy? Michael Kennedy, the son of Robert, simply says, "She was always open to our family...
...Jack, history was full of heroes. And if it made him this way -- if it made him see the heroes -- maybe other little boys will see. Men are such a combination of good and bad. Jack had this hero idea of history, this idealistic view." And she spoke of Camelot and gave the world an image of her husband that is still, for all the revelations of the past three decades, alive. She provided an image of herself too, perhaps more than she knew. The day before she died, a young schoolteacher in New York City who hadn't even...
...skeptics snort about Camelot, but there was something during the Kennedy years that was magic. Jackie was more of that than anyone admitted for a long while. She smoothed the rough Kennedy edges. As much as anyone in those heady days, she grasped the epic dimensions of the adventure. No small portion of the glamour of the Kennedy stewardship that lives on today came from her standards of public propriety and majesty...
...excellent taste in art and music, of course; the "classy" (to use John Kennedy's word) side of Camelot -- the stylish redecorations, Pablo Casals at the White House and so on -- was her doing mostly. But it seemed to me that over the years her truly superb taste expressed itself in what might be called the stylishness of her privacy...