Word: camelot
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...future criminal cases, however, may not answer a key question: How could so much have suddenly gone so wrong? Certainly a longtime trend toward an increasingly dominant U.S. presidency was a factor. In a development beginning with Franklin Roosevelt, vastly enhanced by the romantic Camelot atmosphere surrounding John Kennedy, too much authority has been given by Americans to their Presidents and too much has been expected of them. Harvard Divinity Professor Harvey Cox goes so far as to contend that the U.S. public surrounds the Oval Office with a mystique that approaches "a national quasi-religious cultism...
...author, it should be admitted, has been a movie reviewer for Vogue, served as a knight in Jack Kennedy's Camelot and is now a proud member of the Nixon White House's hate list. He once wrote an article explaining how George McGovern would win the 1972 election. But he is also a distinguished Harvard historian who has won two Pulitzer prizes for books on the presidency (The Age of Jackson, 1946; John F. Kennedy, The Thousand Days...
Although West obviously harbors a special regard for the Kennedys, their portraits seem less revealing than the others, perhaps because the public heard so much about Camelot when it was in flower. Still, few readers will forget Jacqueline Kennedy after the President's funeral: the stunned widow, about to leave the White House, pleadingly questioned West, "My children are good children, aren't they? They're not too spoiled...
...faced the unthinkable: a large group of Massachusetts citizens who were plainly unhappy with them. Complained Father Richard Shmaruk, a priest who belongs to a task force that has been reviewing the design: "The aloofness of the complex and its impact on the community could produce a cross between Camelot and Disneyland in Harvard Square, and we just cannot afford that...
...Camelot is now replaced by a wintry landscape where man's social ills are resolved by the simple application of euphemisms (e.g., "benign neglect"). Could it then be that the political climate not only reflects but also generates the aspirations of a given...