Word: diarist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unfortunately, Eisenhower was not a faithful diarist, and many presidential and personal crises went unremarked. He rarely confided his emotions, even to himself, and his writing, though workmanlike, is usually as flat as the plains of Kansas, where he grew up. When he was emotional, as on the death of his father, he could be poignant. "I'm proud he was my father," he noted. "My only regret is that it was always so difficult to let him know the great depth of my affection for him." Of his wife Mamie and his son John he said almost nothing...
...time, the Tokyo press was shrieking about "white devils," and Hollywood was churning out propaganda movies depicting Japanese as bloodthirsty primitives. But for the diarist, now 81 and living in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, the fact that Japanese and Americans were getting along at the camp was perfectly normal. A flinty, no-nonsense New Englander who once worked in the campaign to free Sacco and Vanzetti, Crouter viewed World War II as a tiresome family quarrel, and not a fit activity for respectable adults. Her book (Forbidden Diary, $14.95, to be published next month by Burt Franklin & Co.) is remarkable...