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...workings of Wharton's inner life, dismantling with obvious pleasure Percy Lubbock's depiction of her in Portrait of Edith Wharton as overly haughty and repressed. The Wharton who emerges from this biography is, by contrast, a woman whose pride is most often a cover for shyness, and whose dormant sensuality is a force that merely awaits release by the right...
Between 1920 and the publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique in 1963, there was a fairly dormant period in the woman's rights movement. The relative quiet of this period makes the publication of Flexner's book not only important for its topic, but also for its scholarly, balanced tone. Winning converts often requires propaganda; scholarly respect and general acceptance requires a thoughtful presentation of the facts...
...then, of course, the Mafia connection was dormant, but a blunder threatened to blow its cover a year later because of an unrelated bit of skulduggery in October 1960. As TIME has reported, Giancana became upset because his girl friend, Singer Phyllis McGuire, took up in Las Vegas with Comedian Dan Rowan. It was arranged to have Rowan's hotel room bugged. Through ill chance, the snooper was caught in the act of planting his gear. The investigation progressed slowly, but eventually the Las Vegas police insisted on putting the evidence before the FBI, and Maheu informed Colonel Edwards...
...than simply a gesture of good will on Sadat's part. As the United States realizes, the greatest beneficiary of an open canal from an economic standpoint will be the Soviet Union, and Sadat is signalling Kissinger in less than subtle fashion that Egypt may re-activate its recently dormant alliance with the Soviet Union at any moment, if American policy is not satisfactory to him. With Soviet ships passing through the canal, the chances of the USSR supplying Sadat with the arms he has requested but not received are good. The Soviet Union opposes the Kissinger step-by-step...
Come midnight this Saturday, the hills of Kentucky will once again bristle and stir with the sound of founding. The mountain madness of the Hatfields and the McCoys may be half a century or more dormant, but feuding over nothing-yet-everything remains the Commonwealth's peculiar pasttime...