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...surprise of no one except rumormongers, Republican Clare Boothe Luce, onetime Connecticut Congresswoman and former U.S. Ambassador to Italy, declared: "Plainly there should be no question of my loyalty to the Republican Party and its distinguished candidates, Mr. Nixon and Mr. Lodge, for whom I have the greatest respect...
Very little happens in The Black Book; it is all murk and manifesto. One meets a menagerie of physical and spiritual cripples-Tarquin, a homosexual; Lobo, a whoremonger; Clare, a gigolo; Gregory, a poet whose feelings chafe against a talent one size too small. These tortured grotesques are insignificant, but they prefigure the Alexandria novels. So does the fetid brilliance of the passages in which
...1940s, Connecticut Playwright Clare Boothe Luce and California Actress Helen Gahagan Douglas added a much-needed touch of glamour to feminine political talent in Congress. Republican Luce raked the New Deal with quotable oratory, warned repeatedly of the rising power of Communist Russia. Six years after retirement, she was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Italy, served with distinction before resigning...
...only begun to fight. As voters, party workers, politicians, they will play a larger, more important role in the affairs of state in the 19605. And as their absorption in politics grows, their voices will be heard, emphatically, through the likes of Margaret Chase Smith and Lucia Cormier. Says Clare Williams, assistant chairman of the Republican National Committee: "If you pulled all the women out of either party, the actual party structure would collapse." No man would deny that fact, for American men, so unwilling for so long to share their franchise, must now agree that the opposite...
...world stirs strange rapture. Writers of ages past, from the author of the Book of Jonah to Matthew Arnold, few of whom had ever been under water in their lives, have been inspired to imaginative fantasies about life in the depths. One modern writer who has been there is Clare Boothe Luce, playwright turned diplomat. In a memorably lyrical series for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, she reported her experiences: "What fishes like flowers, what stones like trees. The coral reefs are a golden girdle of dead and living cities, which dwarf in their age and beauty all the cities of man." Says...