Word: clare
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NONFICTION: After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection, James Davidson and Mark Lytle/ Clare Boothe Luce, Wilfrid Sheed/ How to Make War, James F. Dunnigan/ The Imperial Rockefeller, Joseph E. Persico/ Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor, Diana Trilling/ Scenes of Childhood, Sylvia Townsend Warner
NONFICTION: After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection, James Davidson and Mark Lytle∙Clare Boothe Luce, Wilfrid Sheed∙How to Make War, James F. Dunnigan The Imperial Rockefeller, Joseph E. Peisico∙Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor, Diana Trilling∙Scenes of Childhood, Sylvia Townsend Warner
...News is hoping to win new viewers the old-fashioned way with Reuven Frank. Frank, who spent the past few years exiled to the twelfth floor at NBC, known as the elephant graveyard, is as widely admired by the staff as Small was disliked. Says former NBC News Producer Clare Crawford-Mason: "Reuven is not interested in beating people over the head with value judgments about the news. He thinks the audience is intelligent enough to make up its own mind." As an NBC News producer, Frank teamed Chet Huntley with David Brinkley in 1956, and even created their legendary...
...book: "She was the best of dames, she was the worst of dames." But, the son concludes, that summary is inaccurate: "She was good at just about everything." Yet this, too, is insufficient. He seeks further definition in 1977, when he journeys to Hawaii to replay house guest to Clare, now half-blinded by cataracts, living in "a fur-lined rut" but still capable of casting her spell...
...Thus the Clare Boothe Luce who emerges in this lively, shrewd, indulgent book is, sui generis, a complicated and brilliant woman who has more or less equally enjoyed LSD and scuba diving and her honorary status as general in the U.S. Army. Sheed's book is complicated too. It is not, he ultimately concedes, a biography at all. Maybe, he suggests, "Notes on a Career" will...