Word: condonable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. RICHARD CONDON, 81, author; in Dallas. The movie made of his novel The Manchurian Candidate, a crazy quilt of Asian communists enmeshed with U.S. fascists, seemed fantastic at the time--until the political killing at its core was echoed in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Suddenly Condon's Freudian analysis of America as a nation of dark impulses, largely hidden from itself, was the only explanation that made sense...
...admitted. "What if a devil or a witch or an angry ancestor interferes with the divination process for its own purposes, maybe to mislead the client with a false message?" What if, indeed? The author's fizz of comic energy is as wild and scornful as Richard Condon's, back when Condon was young and frisky. And as was true with such daft Condon fables as Some Angry Angel, Dooling's story has no detectable point or purpose, except to marvel at the rich variety of human wickedness...
...kissed and cuddled and did some things," says Ellinor Benedict Condon '44. "I think kids do a lot morelovemaking and get a lot more physical with itthan they did back in those days...
...Condon recalls being "quite romantic" with aHarvard geology major for a year and a half...
After college, she married Donald Condon, whodid not attend Harvard. Now, 50 years later, shehas still not seen or spoken to Dort...