Word: camelot
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...transcripts is the sharp contradiction between the hard historical evidence and the statements of Kennedy's former advisers. While a certain allowance must be made for the failings of memory, these disparities are too stark and too shockingly recurrent to be explained away. The good men of Camelot have deliberately altered the public record of the Crisis to create an image of President Kennedy as a cool, tough leader who saved the Free World from the encroachments of communism--instead of a dovish Kennedy who sought the easiest way to resolve the Crisis...
...sentimental catch in the throat to millions of people who are only dimly aware of his name." Within a decade, though, such sentimentality had given way to a more hard-edged style. In a 1960 cover article on Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe (Brigadoon, My Fair Lady, Camelot), we approvingly likened the best of Lerner's lyrics to "expertly cut glass...
...youth and work. Part of the power of the year derives from the mystery of all the possibilities that vanished into death and nothingness. (In October there came an odd, minor coda to the sex and death and disillusion of the '60s, when Jacqueline Kennedy married Aristotle Onassis. Illusion -- Camelot and the rest -- came to disillusion, a passage that was a major theme...
There is a strong romantic streak in Democratic politics, the quixotic Adlai Stevenson campaigns, for example, and John Kennedy's brief, shining Camelot. For the party that nominated William Jennings Bryan three times, choosing a candidate is not a cold calculation of self-interest but a leap of faith, an idealistic commitment. Hart creatively and perhaps cynically used this imagery in recasting himself as the ultimate guerrilla insurgent, scorned by his party and tormented by the press. Of course, some of this live-off-the-land posturing is preposterous. Hart squandered the strongest and most dedicated organization in the Democratic...
...Errol Flynn and romanced Grace Kelly, even as her rich parents scoured Europe for bluer blood. Cassini is best known for being couturier to Jackie Kennedy ("I want all ((my outfits)) to be original and no fat little women hopping around in the same dress"), and his memoir of Camelot is lively. He also offers good gossip, recounting Aly Khan's sexual techniques or a little joke Zsa Zsa Gabor played on a lover. But the book's main charm is the author's portrait of himself as Playboy, Second Class -- a man who had to hustle his own pleasures...