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...Poindexter grew up in Odon, Ind. (pop. 1,400), described by Richard Poindexter as a "very conservative, Bible-belt community." A thin, shy and bookish child, Poindexter was an exemplary student who won appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy from the late Republican Senator Homer Capehart. Poindexter's mother Ellen recalls that the Senator once sat in the family's living room on a Sunday afternoon and told John that "he hadn't had very good luck with boys from Daviess County." That statement, she believes, was "part of the reason why John wanted to do so well" at Annapolis...
...vote for President in 1952 was for that saint of the liberals, Adlai Stevenson. The man who was raised a Protestant and is now an agnostic married a Jewish woman, Claire Davidson, as his first wife; as a widower in 1982, he married a former Roman Catholic nun, Mary Ellen Pohl. The celebrated foe of judicial permissiveness indulges enough liberality of spirit to relish martinis before dinner and enjoy a good party...
Some journalists also found the letter troubling. "I may not be able to define perfectly the 'invasion of privacy' in presidential politics," wrote Boston Globe Columnist Ellen Goodman, "but I know it when I see it. This is it." In the Times's defense, Whitney argues that reporting is "one big fishing expedition. That doesn't mean we print everything we find...
...Ellen P. Goodman...
This, though, is a relatively small matter. Better to celebrate the rise to prominence of Harbison and fellow Symphonists Albert and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, who won her Pulitzer in 1983. Like Broadway, the symphony is a fabulous invalid: there is nothing wrong with it that a few good works cannot cure...