Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JOHN and Robert Kennedy died violently, yet their deaths endowed them with a larger grace and the flourish of legend. The youngest brother, Edward Kennedy, is living out a fate that is far more complicated. Having buried his brothers and become a surrogate father to Bobby's children, he...
Rumors of a government reshuffle had been circulating in Saigon for months. Having said that he was willing to com pete openly with the Communists' political arm, the National Liberation Front, Thieu was expected to broaden the makeup of his Cabinet in an effort to match the Front'...
There are those who question the religious character of Hargis' endeavors. In 1966, the Internal Revenue Service decided that his Christian Echoes Ministry Inc. (the legal name of the Christian Crusade) did too much lobbying to deserve its tax-exempt status as a "religious and educational" organization. Hargis is...
Anything offensive to complacent bourgeois morality and materialism has a claim on Greene's highly singular sympathies-a strong contributing cause to Greene's distaste for the U.S. character, which is liable to pop up petulantly on any occasion. America, after all, is a place where leprosy, torture...
Julian Moynahan is one of those novelists who are cursed with a shorter attention span than their readers. His style is to restlessly gad about-from character to character, from scene to scene -always in the name of art, of course. Between the lines one can almost hear him learnedly...